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title: "Polar bears and Arctic wolves, of course I mean," she said, for she… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "Polar bears and Arctic wolves, of course I mean," she said, for she did not want George to think her stupid again. Who acts: Polar bears, Bear, George. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 90

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"Polar bears and Arctic wolves, of course I mean," she said, for she did not want George to think her stupid again.

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**Who acts:** Polar bears, Bear, George · **What happens:** mean, say, not want, think · **To what, where:** George, Bear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Polar bears, Bear, George), 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:pg23661:7:90
# text = "Polar bears and Arctic wolves, of course I mean," she said, for she did not want George to think her stupid again.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	fixed	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
22	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Polar bears and Arctic wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Bear | George |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | George *not said here* | Bear |  |  |  | stupid *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |

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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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