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title: For of all who should have served her, only one remained faithful--h… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: For of all who should have served her, only one remained faithful--her old nurse, who had lived with her in the tower all the Princess's life. Who acts: one, old nurse. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 8

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For of all who should have served her, only one remained faithful--her old nurse, who had lived with her in the tower all the Princess's life.

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**Who acts:** one, old nurse · **What happens:** serve, remain, live · **To what, where:** Princess, old nurse, life, tower

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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 (one, old nurse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg23661:13:8
# text = For of all who should have served her, only one remained faithful--her old nurse, who had lived with her in the tower all the Princess's life.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | should · perfect · passive |  | Princess |  |  |  | for all | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | past | one | Princess's old nurse |  |  |  | faithful *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past · perfect | Princess's old nurse | the Princess's life |  | the tower |  | with Princess | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |

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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.

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**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.

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