The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 141

The Prince had never been a really truthful boy, and it would have been just like him to bring home a bottle with nothing in it and then to pretend that there was a dragon inside.

Who acts: Prince, dragon · What happens: have, not be, be, pretend · To what, where: truthful boy

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, dragon), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 boy	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 boy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 truthful	advmod
8	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 would	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 would	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 would	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 had	advcl
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 would	xcomp
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 bring	cop
16	just	just	ADV	_	20 bring	advmod
17	like	like	SCONJ	_	20 bring	mark
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bring	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 bring	mark
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	ccomp
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 bring	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bottle	det
23	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 nothing	case
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 bottle	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 nothing	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pretend	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 pretend	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 pretend	mark
31	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bring	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 was	mark
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 pretend	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 dragon	det
36	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 was	nsubj
37	inside	inside	ADV	_	34 was	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Prince					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	participle		a truthful boy				tree rules
3	have	infinitive	the Prince not said here					tree rules
4	is	participle	Prince				bring, home property	tree rules
5	pretend	to-infinitive	Prince not said here			then		tree rules
6	be	past	a dragon		there		inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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