--- title: The Princess kissed them, and cried over them, and tore pieces of he… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess kissed them, and cried over them, and tore pieces of her silky-milky gown to tie them up with, and the two went back to the tower and told the nurse all about everything. Who acts: Princess, two. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/223/) [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/) / 223 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 223 The Princess kissed them, and cried over them, and tore pieces of her silky-milky gown to tie them up with, and the two went back to the tower and told the nurse all about everything. **Who acts:** Princess, two · **What happens:** kiss, cry, tear, tie up, go back, tell · **To what, where:** hands, pieces, nurse · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Princess, two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg23661:1485`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg23661:13:223 # text = The Princess kissed them, and cried over them, and tore pieces of her silky-milky gown to tie them up with, and the two went back to the tower and told the nurse all about everything. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 tore tear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 16 silky silky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 milky milky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 gown gown NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 tie tie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nsubj _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 all all ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 about about ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 35 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kiss** | past | the Princess | hands *= hand* | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | over hands *= hand* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location | | 3 | **tear** | past | the Princess *not said here* | pieces of Princess's milky gown | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location piece=Theme | | 4 | **tie up** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | hands *= hand* | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **go back** | past | the two | | | | | to the tower *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to tower=Result | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the two *not said here* | the nurse | | | | about everything | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient about everything=Topic | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/222/) - next →: [sentence 224](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/224/) - ↑ back to [The Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/)