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title: But in case you are not a thoughtful child--and it is just possible… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But in case you are not a thoughtful child--and it is just possible of course that you are not--I will tell you at once what that most remarkable thing was. Who acts: you, case. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 25

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But in case you are not a thoughtful child--and it is just possible of course that you are not--I will tell you at once what that most remarkable thing was.

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**Who acts:** you, case · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, case), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:3:25
# text = But in case you are not a thoughtful child--and it is just possible of course that you are not--I will tell you at once what that most remarkable thing was.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	advmod	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
31	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	_
32	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | in a thoughtful child | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | case |  |  |  |  | of course; possible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | you |  | you |  |  | at a thoughtful child; tell *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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