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title: Look here--I don't care a straw about the Aurora Borealis, but I sho… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Look here--I don't care a straw about the Aurora Borealis, but I shouldn't mind discovering the North Pole: It's awfully difficult and dangerous, and then you come home and write a book about it with a lot of pictures, and everybody says how brave you are." Who acts: you, I, everybody. A sentence of
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 71

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Look here--I don't care a straw about the Aurora Borealis, but I shouldn't mind discovering the North Pole: It's awfully difficult and dangerous, and then you come home and write a book about it with a lot of pictures, and everybody says how brave you are."

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**Who acts:** you, I, everybody · **What happens:** look, not care, not mind, discover, be, come · **To what, where:** straw, North Pole, book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. 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, everybody), 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:pg23661:7:71
# text = Look here--I don't care a straw about the Aurora Borealis, but I shouldn't mind discovering the North Pole: It's awfully difficult and dangerous, and then you come home and write a book about it with a lot of pictures, and everybody says how brave you are."
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
20	discovering	discover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	awfully	awfully	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
36	home	home	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	about	about	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	51	nsubj	_	_
51	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
52	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
53	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	ccomp	_	_
54	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
55	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | I | a straw |  |  |  | about the Aurora Borealis | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **mind** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **discover** | gerund | I *not said here* | the North Pole |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | awfully, difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | present | you |  |  |  | then | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **write** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a book |  |  |  | about Pole; with a lot of pictures | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about it=Topic |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | brave *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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