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title: You know it is not good manners to stare, even at Royalty, except of… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: You know it is not good manners to stare, even at Royalty, except of course for cats. Who acts: You, middle. 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 59

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You know it is not good manners to stare, even at Royalty, except of course for cats.

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**Who acts:** You, middle · **What happens:** know, not be, stare · **To what, where:** good manners, Royalty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, middle), 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:pg23661:9:59
# text = You know it is not good manners to stare, even at Royalty, except of course for cats.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stare	stare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Royalty	Royalty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	except	except	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **is a** | present | middle | good manners |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stare** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | Royalty |  |  |  | except course; for cats | 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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