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title: In a little while the dragon came in, and all the long teeth in his… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a little while the dragon came in, and all the long teeth in his six heads chattered with anger at the sight of the stranger. Who acts: dragon. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 67

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In a little while the dragon came in, and all the long teeth in his six heads chattered with anger at the sight of the stranger.

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**Who acts:** dragon · **What happens:** come in, chatter, sight · **To what, where:** long teeth, little, six heads, stranger

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2435:31:67
# text = In a little while the dragon came in, and all the long teeth in his six heads chattered with anger at the sight of the stranger.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	chattered	chatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | the dragon | all long teeth in dragon's six heads |  | a little |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in little=Location |
| 2 | **chatter** | participle |  | dragon's six heads *not said here* |  |  |  | with anger; at the sight of the stranger | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at sight=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | the stranger |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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