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title: At this the dragon grew rather frightened, but in a moment had recol… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this the dragon grew rather frightened, but in a moment had recollected his eighteen heads, and was bold again. 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 96

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At this the dragon grew rather frightened, but in a moment had recollected his eighteen heads, and was bold again.

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**What happens:** grow, recollect, be · **To what, where:** eighteen heads

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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: 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:pg2435:31:96
# text = At this the dragon grew rather frightened, but in a moment had recollected his eighteen heads, and was bold again.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	recollected	recollect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at this dragon; frightened *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dragon=Location |
| 2 | **recollect** | past · perfect |  | dragon's eighteen heads |  |  | moment |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | again | bold *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 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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