--- title: By breakfasttime he had devoured the whole of the Prince's treasures… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: By breakfasttime he had devoured the whole of the Prince's treasures, and when the Prince came along the street at about eleven, he met the dragon coming out of the broken door of the Treasury, with molten gold still dripping from his jaws. Who acts: secretary, Prince, dragon. A sentence of «The Boo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/146/) [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/) / [The Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/) / 146 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 146 By breakfasttime he had devoured the whole of the Prince's treasures, and when the Prince came along the street at about eleven, he met the dragon coming out of the broken door of the Treasury, with molten gold still dripping from his jaws. **Who acts:** secretary, Prince, dragon · **What happens:** devour, come, meet, come out, break, drip · **To what, where:** eleven, dragon, broken door, jaws This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secretary, Prince, dragon), 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:pg23661:13:146 # text = By breakfasttime he had devoured the whole of the Prince's treasures, and when the Prince came along the street at about eleven, he met the dragon coming out of the broken door of the Treasury, with molten gold still dripping from his jaws. 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 breakfasttime breakfasttime NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 devoured devour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 15 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 19 along along ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 out out ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Treasury Treasury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 molten molten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 43 still still ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 dripping drip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **devour** | past · perfect | secretary | | | | | by breakfasttime; whole *property* | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | the Prince | | | eleven | | along the street | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along street=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **meet** | past | secretary | the dragon | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent | | 4 | **come out** | gerund | the dragon *not said here* | the broken door of the Treasury | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient door=Result | | 5 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **drip** | gerund | secretary *not said here* | | | secretary's jaws | still | with molten gold | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from jaw=Source | | 7 | **treasure** | | the Prince | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/145/) - next →: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/147/) - ↑ back to [The Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/)