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title: Now, you will remember that I told you there was one wicked person i… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, you will remember that I told you there was one wicked person in Rotundia, and I cannot conceal from you any longer that this Complete Bad was the Princess's Uncle James. Who acts: you, I, one wicked person, Complete Bad. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4, with i
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 15

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Now, you will remember that I told you there was one wicked person in Rotundia, and I cannot conceal from you any longer that this Complete Bad was the Princess's Uncle James.

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**Who acts:** you, I, one wicked person, Complete Bad · **What happens:** remember, tell, be, not conceal · **To what, where:** you, Uncle James · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, one wicked person, Complete Bad), 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:pg23661:4:15
# text = Now, you will remember that I told you there was one wicked person in Rotundia, and I cannot conceal from you any longer that this Complete Bad was the Princess's Uncle James.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Rotundia	Rotundia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	any	any	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
29	Complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Bad	Bad	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	36	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | future | you |  |  |  | now |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | past | one wicked person in Rotundia |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **conceal** | can | I |  |  |  |  | from you; long *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from you=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Complete Bad | the Princess's Uncle James |  |  |  |  | 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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