The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 91

"Don't be a silly boy," said the Princess, pretending to be very grown up, for, though she had been on the island time only knows how many years, she was just eighteen, and she still liked pretending. "

Who acts: Princess · What happens: do, not be, say, pretend, grow up, be · To what, where: silly boy, eighteen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 boy	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 boy	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Do	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pretending	punct
14	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	18 grown	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 grown	aux:pass
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 grown	advmod
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 pretending	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 grown	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 for	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	18 grown	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knows	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 time	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 time	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 time	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 time	cop
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 time	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
29	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 time	compound
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knows	obl:unmarked
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 knows	advmod
32	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 many	advmod
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 years	amod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 knows	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 eighteen	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 eighteen	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 eighteen	cop
39	just	just	ADV	_	40 eighteen	advmod
40	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 knows	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 liked	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 liked	cc
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 liked	nsubj
44	still	still	ADV	_	45 liked	advmod
45	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 knows	advcl
46	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 liked	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 knows	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do in a quote	infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	infinitive		a silly boy		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pretend	gerund	the Princess not said here			tree rules
5	grow up	to-infinitive · passive	the Princess not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»
6	is	past · perfect	Princess		on the island time	tree rules
7	know	present			year	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	past	Princess	eighteen		tree rules
9	like	past	Princess		still	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	pretend not said to happen	gerund	Princess not said here			tree rules

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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