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title: Another size ate nothing but lilies of the valley, and a third size… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Another size ate nothing but lilies of the valley, and a third size ate only Prime Ministers if they were to be had, and, if not, would feed freely on servants in livery. Who acts: size, third size. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 90

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Another size ate nothing but lilies of the valley, and a third size ate only Prime Ministers if they were to be had, and, if not, would feed freely on servants in livery.

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**Who acts:** size, third size · **What happens:** eat, have, feed · **To what, where:** nothing, Prime Ministers, sizes

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (size, third size), 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:pg23661:5:90
# text = Another size ate nothing but lilies of the valley, and a third size ate only Prime Ministers if they were to be had, and, if not, would feed freely on servants in livery.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	Prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
33	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	livery	livery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **eat** | past | another size | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | past | a third size | Prime Ministers |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Patient |
| 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | sizes *= size* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **feed** | would | another size *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on servants in livery; freely *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on servant=Patient |

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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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