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title: And he mastered everything except the fiery dragon, but the fiery dr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he mastered everything except the fiery dragon, but the fiery dragon killed the little bull-calf. Who acts: lad, fiery dragon. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 98

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And he mastered everything except the fiery dragon, but the fiery dragon killed the little bull-calf.

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**Who acts:** lad, fiery dragon · **What happens:** master, kill · **To what, where:** everything, little bull calf

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, fiery 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:pg14241:30:98
# text = And he mastered everything except the fiery dragon, but the fiery dragon killed the little bull-calf.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mastered	master	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	except	except	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **master** | past | lad | everything |  |  |  | except the fiery dragon | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the fiery dragon | the little bull calf |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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