The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 61

The papers would not call them dragons, because, of course, no one believes in dragons nowadays--and at any rate the papers were not going to be so silly as to believe in fairy stories.

Who acts: papers, one · What happens: not call, believe, not go, be · To what, where: lizard, rate, fairy stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (papers, one), 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 papers	det
2	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 call	advmod
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 call	obj
7	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 believes	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 believes	mark
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 of	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	9 because	conj
12	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 of	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 because	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 believes	nsubj
16	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 call	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 dragons	case
18	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 believes	obl
19	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	16 believes	advmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 going	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 rate	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 rate	det
24	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 going	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 papers	det
26	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 going	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 going	advmod
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 call	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	33 silly	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 silly	cop
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 silly	advmod
33	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 going	xcomp
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 believe	mark
35	to	to	PART	_	36 believe	mark
36	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 silly	ccomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 stories	case
38	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stories	compound
39	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 believe	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not call speech: assert	would	the papers	lizard			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme dragon=Result
2	believe	present	no one			in dragons; nowadays property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	not go	past · progressive	the papers		any rate		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at rate=Location
4	is	to-infinitive	the papers not said here			silly property	tree rules
5	believe	to-infinitive	the papers not said here		fairy stories		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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