--- title: So now, when he and his pack went out, several people in the town wh… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: So now, when he and his pack went out, several people in the town whispered, "I wish the dragon would eat him"--which was very wrong of them, no doubt, but then he was such a very nasty Prince. Who acts: Prince, several people, dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Drag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/51/) [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/) / 51 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 51 So now, when he and his pack went out, several people in the town whispered, "I wish the dragon would eat him"--which was very wrong of them, no doubt, but then he was such a very nasty Prince. **Who acts:** Prince, several people, dragon · **What happens:** go out, whisper, wish, eat, be · **To what, where:** Prince, nasty Prince · **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 (Prince, several people, 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:pg23661:13:51 # text = So now, when he and his pack went out, several people in the town whispered, "I wish the dragon would eat him"--which was very wrong of them, no doubt, but then he was such a very nasty Prince. 1 So so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 whispered whisper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 40 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 47 advmod _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 43 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 47 det:predet _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 very very ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 nasty nasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | Prince | | | | now | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | several people in the town | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | several people in the town *= people* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | would | the dragon | Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | | | of people; wrong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | past | Prince | such nasty Prince | | | then | | tree rules | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/52/) - ↑ back to [The Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/)