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title: This seemed so careless and unkind that Harry would not answer, but… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: This seemed so careless and unkind that Harry would not answer, but Effie said patiently, "It has been very fine. Who acts: This, Harry, Effie, sort. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 34

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This seemed so careless and unkind that Harry would not answer, but Effie said patiently, "It has been very fine.

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**Who acts:** This, Harry, Effie, sort · **What happens:** seem, not answer, say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Harry, Effie, sort), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg23661:6:34
# text = This seemed so careless and unkind that Harry would not answer, but Effie said patiently, "It has been very fine.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Effie	Effie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | This |  |  |  |  | careless *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | would | Harry |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Effie |  |  |  |  | patiently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | sort |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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