--- title: Their voices came up to the Princess on her tower, and she heard the… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Their voices came up to the Princess on her tower, and she heard the words threaded on their screams like beads on sharp needles: "The dragon, the dragon, the dragon! Who acts: voices, Princess, fields. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/30/) [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/) / 30 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 30 Their voices came up to the Princess on her tower, and she heard the words threaded on their screams like beads on sharp needles: "The dragon, the dragon, the dragon! **Who acts:** voices, Princess, fields · **What happens:** come up, hear, thread, scream · **To what, where:** words 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 (voices, Princess, fields), 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:pg23661:13:30 # text = Their voices came up to the Princess on her tower, and she heard the words threaded on their screams like beads on sharp needles: "The dragon, the dragon, the dragon! 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 threaded thread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 screams scream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 beads bead NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | past | fields's voices | | | | | to the Princess on Princess's tower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **hear** | past | Princess | the words | | | | the dragon and the dragon and the dragon *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 3 | **thread** | participle | | the words *not said here* | | | | on fields's screams like beads on sharp needles | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on scream=Co-Patient | | 4 | **scream** | | fields *= field* | | | | | like beads on sharp needles | nom scream «communication intransitive»: poss=agent like=obl | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/31/) - ↑ back to [The Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/)