The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 73

"You're going on as if you was going to be an eel instead of a King," said Nurse.

Who acts: You, Nurse · What happens: go on, go, be, say · To what, where: eel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Nurse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 said	ccomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 going	compound:prt
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 going	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 going	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 going	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	14 eel	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 eel	cop
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 eel	det
14	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	xcomp
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	18 King	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	Nurse	Nurse	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go on in a quote	present · progressive	You			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go in a quote	past · progressive	you		instead a King	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	a eel		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Nurse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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.

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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