The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 75

So Jane went on pretending to howl, and the real crying stopped: It always does when you begin to pretend.

Who acts: Jane, real crying, crying, you · What happens: go, pretend, howl, stop, do, begin

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jane, real crying, crying, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 pretending	mark
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 howl	mark
7	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pretending	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stopped	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crying	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crying	amod
12	crying	crying	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stopped	nsubj
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 does	punct
15	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 does	nsubj
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 does	advmod
17	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stopped	conj
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 begin	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 begin	nsubj
20	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 does	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 pretend	mark
22	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 begin	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	past	Jane		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pretend	gerund	Jane not said here		tree rules
3	howl	to-infinitive	Jane not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stop	past	the real crying		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	do	present	crying	always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	begin	present	you		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	pretend	to-infinitive	you 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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