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title: And you know how unpleasant that is, even in a private school, and i… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And you know how unpleasant that is, even in a private school, and in a public kingdom it is, of course, much worse. Who acts: you, that, school. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 39

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And you know how unpleasant that is, even in a private school, and in a public kingdom it is, of course, much worse.

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**Who acts:** you, that, school · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** unpleasant private school, public kingdom

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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, that, school), 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:pg23661:4:39
# text = And you know how unpleasant that is, even in a private school, and in a public kingdom it is, of course, much worse.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	27	advmod	_	_
24	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  | a unpleasant private school |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | school |  |  | a public kingdom |  | bad *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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