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title: I am not too proud to own that there are some things I know nothing… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: I am not too proud to own that there are some things I know nothing about--and this is one of them. Who acts: I, things, this. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 53

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I am not too proud to own that there are some things I know nothing about--and this is one of them.

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**Who acts:** I, things, this · **What happens:** not be, own, be, know · **To what, where:** nothing, one

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, things, this), 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:pg23661:9:53
# text = I am not too proud to own that there are some things I know nothing about--and this is one of them.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **own** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **does** | present | some things |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present | I | nothing |  |  |  | about *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | present | this | one |  |  |  | of things *= thing* | 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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