--- title: Now the natural history lesson is over, and if you have been attendi… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Now the natural history lesson is over, and if you have been attending, you know more about Rotundia than anyone there did, except three people: the Lord Chief Schoolmaster, the Princess's uncle--who was a magician, and knew everything without learning it--and Tom, the gardener's son. 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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 (natural history lesson, you, uncle, Lord Chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:3:49 # text = Now the natural history lesson is over, and if you have been attending, you know more about Rotundia than anyone there did, except three people: the Lord Chief Schoolmaster, the Princess's uncle--who was a magician, and knew everything without learning it--and Tom, the gardener's son. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 over over ADV RB _ 1 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 aux _ _ 14 attending attend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 17 obj _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Rotundia Rotundia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 22 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 fixed _ _ 23 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 24 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 except except ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 Schoolmaster Schoolmaster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 47 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 46 obj _ _ 48 without without SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 49 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 advcl _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 -- -- PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 57 's 's PART POS _ 56 case _ _ 58 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the natural history lesson | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **attend** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect · progressive | you | | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **know** | present | you | more | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 4 | **do** | past | | | | | | except three people the Lord Chief and Tom and the gardener's son | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | the Princess's uncle and a magician | a magician | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **know** | past | the Lord Chief and Tom and the gardener's son *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | | 7 | **learn** | gerund | the Lord Chief and Tom and the gardener's son *not said here* | magician | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/3/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/3/50/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/3/)