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title: Even Prince was fed on beefsteaks and cream scones till at last he w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Even Prince was fed on beefsteaks and cream scones till at last he was as round as a butter jar. Who acts: cream scones, Prince. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 40

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Even Prince was fed on beefsteaks and cream scones till at last he was as round as a butter jar.

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**Who acts:** cream scones, Prince · **What happens:** feed, till, be · **To what, where:** Prince, beefsteaks, last

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cream scones, Prince), 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:pg3454:24:40
# text = Even Prince was fed on beefsteaks and cream scones till at last he was as round as a butter jar.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	beefsteaks	beefsteak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	scones	scone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	till	till	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past · passive |  | Prince |  | beefsteaks |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **till** | present | cream scones |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Prince | last *not said here* |  |  |  | as a butter jar; round *property* | tree rules |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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