--- title: The Queen and the Princess were feeding the goldfish in the courtyar… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: The Queen and the Princess were feeding the goldfish in the courtyard fountains with crumbs of the Princess's eighteenth birthday cake, when the King came into the courtyard, looking as black as thunder, with his black raven hopping after him. Who acts: Princess, Queen, King, black raven. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Queen, King, black raven), 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:pg23661:9:136 # text = The Queen and the Princess were feeding the goldfish in the courtyard fountains with crumbs of the Princess's eighteenth birthday cake, when the King came into the courtyard, looking as black as thunder, with his black raven hopping after him. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 fountains fountain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 eighteenth eighteenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obl _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 42 hopping hop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 acl _ _ 43 after after ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | past · progressive | the Princess | the goldfish | | the courtyard | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goldfish=Value in courtyard=Location | | 2 | **fountain** | present | the Queen | | | | | with crumbs of the Princess's eighteenth birthday cake | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | past | the King | | | the courtyard | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **look** | gerund | the King *not said here* | | | | | as black; as thunder; with King's black raven | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **hop** | gerund | King's black raven *not said here* | | | | after King | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/137/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/)