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title: We have only one Princess, it is true; but far be it from us to disp… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: We have only one Princess, it is true; but far be it from us to display a miserly temper at such a moment. Who acts: We, dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 69

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We have only one Princess, it is true; but far be it from us to display a miserly temper at such a moment.

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**Who acts:** We, dragon · **What happens:** have, be, display · **To what, where:** one Princess, dragon, miserly temper

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, dragon), 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:pg23661:4:69
# text = We have only one Princess, it is true; but far be it from us to display a miserly temper at such a moment.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	display	display	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	miserly	miserly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	25	det:predet	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | We | one Princess |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | dragon | one Princess *not said here* |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | dragon |  |  |  | from us; far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **display** | to-infinitive | dragon | a miserly temper |  |  | moment |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme temper=Reflexive |

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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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