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title: Perhaps no one will ever know that _we_ have been here, and the robi… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps no one will ever know that _we_ have been here, and the robins will cover us with leaves and--" Who acts: one, we, robins. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 42

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Perhaps no one will ever know that \_we\_ have been here, and the robins will cover us with leaves and--"

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**Who acts:** one, we, robins · **What happens:** know, be, cover · **To what, where:** us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, we, robins), 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:pg23661:8:42
# text = Perhaps no one will ever know that _we_ have been here, and the robins will cover us with leaves and--"
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	robins	robin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	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 | **know** | future | no one |  |  |  | ever | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | future | the robins | us |  |  |  |  | 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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