The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 247

But then she was very old and very kind, and had always said he was the best of boys.

Who acts: granny, person · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (granny, person), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 old	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 old	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kind	cc
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 kind	advmod
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 said	advmod
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 old	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 best	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 best	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 best	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 said	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 boys	case
20	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 best	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	granny	then	old property	tree rules
2	be		granny not said here			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect			always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	person		of boys; good property	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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