--- title: Be a good little King now, and say 'please' and 'thank you,' and rem… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Be a good little King now, and say 'please' and 'thank you,' and remember to pass the cake to the little girls, and don't have more than two helps of anything." Who acts: you, two. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/89/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/) / 89 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 89 Be a good little King now, and say 'please' and 'thank you,' and remember to pass the cake to the little girls, and don't have more than two helps of anything." **Who acts:** you, two · **What happens:** say, thank, remember, pass, not have, help · **To what, where:** you, cake, little girls · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, two), 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:pg23661:1:89 # text = Be a good little King now, and say 'please' and 'thank you,' and remember to pass the cake to the little girls, and don't have more than two helps of anything." 1 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 please please INTJ UH _ 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 remember remember VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 have have VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 34 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 36 advmod _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nsubj _ _ 37 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent please=Topic | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | you *not said here* | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the cake | the little girls | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cake=Theme to girl=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **have** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **help** | present | two | | | | | of anything | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/90/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/)