--- title: Then Princess Mary Ann spoke up royally, and said, "Don't be silly,… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/4/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/4/) / 5 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg23661:4:5 # text = 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. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Ann Ann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 royally royally ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 histories history NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 parataxis _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 41 obj _ _ 43 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. 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