The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 5

Then Princess Mary Ann spoke up royally, and said, "Don't be silly, because it's only in fairy stories and histories of England and things like that, that people are unkind and want to hurt each other.

Who acts: Princess Mary, dragon, people · What happens: speak up, say, not be, be, want, hurt · To what, where: fairy stories, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Mary, dragon, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 spoke	advmod
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mary	compound
3	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	nsubj
4	Ann	Ann	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mary	flat
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 spoke	compound:prt
7	royally	royally	ADV	_	5 spoke	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoke	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 silly	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 silly	punct
13	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 silly	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 silly	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 silly	cop
16	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stories	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 stories	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stories	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stories	cop
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 stories	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 stories	case
23	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stories	compound
24	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 silly	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 histories	cc
26	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stories	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 England	case
28	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 histories	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 things	cc
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 England	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 that	case
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 things	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 unkind	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 unkind	mark
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 unkind	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 unkind	cop
37	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 want	cc
39	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 unkind	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 hurt	mark
41	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 want	xcomp
42	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	41 hurt	obj
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 each	fixed
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak up speech: other	past	Princess Mary			then	royally property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Princess Mary not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	infinitive · do-support					silly property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	dragon		fairy stories and histories of England and things like that			tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	people				unkind property	tree rules
6	want in a quote	present	people not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	hurt not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here	each				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Patient

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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