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description: The moment that Paul knew that this terrible dragon was no other than the dwarf whom he had tied to the tree, he longed more than ever to fly at his throat. Who acts: Paul, terrible dragon, moment. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, with its depen
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 87

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The moment that Paul knew that this terrible dragon was no other than the dwarf whom he had tied to the tree, he longed more than ever to fly at his throat.

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**Who acts:** Paul, terrible dragon, moment · **What happens:** know, be, tie, long, fly · **To what, where:** moment, more, throat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Paul, terrible dragon, moment), 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:pg2435:31:87
# text = The moment that Paul knew that this terrible dragon was no other than the dwarf whom he had tied to the tree, he longed more than ever to fly at his throat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
4	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	obj	_	_
27	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Paul | the moment |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | this terrible dragon |  |  |  |  | than the dwarf; other *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tie** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to the tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **long** | past | the moment | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | to-infinitive | the moment *not said here* |  |  | Paul's throat | ever |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at throat=Location |

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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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