--- title: The Princess feeds them every day with her own hands, and her first… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess feeds them every day with her own hands, and her first edict on coming to the throne was that the word _pork_ should never be uttered on pain of death, and should, besides, be scratched out of all the dictionaries. Who acts: Princess, first edict. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/271/) [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/) / 271 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 271 The Princess feeds them every day with her own hands, and her first edict on coming to the throne was that the word \_pork\_ should never be uttered on pain of death, and should, besides, be scratched out of all the dictionaries. **Who acts:** Princess, first edict · **What happens:** feed, come, be, not utter, scratch out, pain · **To what, where:** notices, throne, word, pain, dictionaries, death 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, first edict), 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:pg23661:13:271 # text = The Princess feeds them every day with her own hands, and her first edict on coming to the throne was that the word _pork_ should never be uttered on pain of death, and should, besides, be scratched out of all the dictionaries. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 edict edict NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 16 on on SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 25 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 pork pork NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 31 punct _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 uttered utter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 appos _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 38 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 besides besides INTJ UH _ 43 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 scratched scratch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 44 out out ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 48 det:predet _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 dictionaries dictionary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | present | the Princess | notices *= notice* | | | day | with Princess's own hands | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 2 | **come** | gerund | Princess's first edict and the word and pork *not said here* | | | the throne | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is a** | past | the Princess *not said here* | the word and pork | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **utter** *speech: other* | should · passive | | | | pain of death | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S» | | 5 | **scratch out** | infinitive · passive | | all dictionaries | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: dictionary=Theme | | 6 | **pain** | | | death | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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