The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 271

The Princess feeds them every day with her own hands, and her first edict on coming to the throne was that the word _pork_ should never be uttered on pain of death, and should, besides, be scratched out of all the dictionaries.

Who acts: Princess, first edict · What happens: feed, come, be, not utter, scratch out, pain · To what, where: notices, throne, word, pain, dictionaries, death

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 (Princess, first edict), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	nsubj
3	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feeds	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	obl:unmarked
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 hands	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hands	amod
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feeds	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 edict	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 edict	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 edict	nmod:poss
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 edict	amod
15	edict	edict	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	parataxis
16	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 coming	mark
17	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 edict	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 throne	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 throne	det
20	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coming	obl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 word	cop
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 word	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 word	det
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 edict	conj
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 word	punct
26	pork	pork	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 word	conj
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 uttered	punct
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 uttered	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 uttered	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 uttered	aux:pass
31	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 word	appos
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 pain	case
33	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 uttered	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 death	case
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pain	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 scratched	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 scratched	cc
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 besides	aux
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 besides	punct
40	besides	besides	INTJ	_	43 scratched	discourse
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 besides	punct
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 scratched	aux:pass
43	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 uttered	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	48 dictionaries	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 dictionaries	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 dictionaries	det:predet
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 dictionaries	det
48	dictionaries	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 scratched	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feeds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	the Princess	notices = notice		day	with Princess's own hands	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	come	gerund	Princess's first edict and the word and pork not said here		the throne			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial_Location
3	is a	past	the Princess not said here	the word and pork				tree rules
4	not utter speech: other	should · passive			pain of death			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»
5	scratch out	infinitive · passive		all dictionaries				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: dictionary=Theme
6	pain			death				nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient

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.

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