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title: Into this the hare flew with the prince at his heels, when, lo! inst… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Into this the hare flew with the prince at his heels, when, lo! instead of the hare, there stood a dragon breathing fire and flame; and out shot a fiery tongue which coiled round the prince’s waist, and lifted him straight into the dragon’s mouth, and he was seen no more. Who acts: fiery tongue. A s
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 40

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Into this the hare flew with the prince at his heels, when, lo! instead of the hare, there stood a dragon breathing fire and flame; and out shot a fiery tongue which coiled round the prince’s waist, and lifted him straight into the dragon’s mouth, and he was seen no more.

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**Who acts:** fiery tongue · **What happens:** fly, stand, breathe, shoot, coil, lift · **To what, where:** heels, dragon, fire, fiery tongue, waist, mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fiery tongue), 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:pg2435:8:40
# text = Into this the hare flew with the prince at his heels, when, lo! instead of the hare, there stood a dragon breathing fire and flame; and out shot a fiery tongue which coiled round the prince’s waist, and lifted him straight into the dragon’s mouth, and he was seen no more.
1	Into	into	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	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	coiled	coil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	round	round	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	’s	's	PART	POS	_	51	case	_	_
53	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
59	no	no	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past |  |  |  | hare's heels |  | into this hare; with the prince | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heel=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a dragon |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus |
| 3 | **breathe** | gerund |  | fire and flame |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 4 | **shoot** | past |  | a fiery tongue |  |  |  | out *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
| 5 | **coil** | past | a fiery tongue |  |  | the prince's waist |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round waist=Destination |
| 6 | **lift** | past |  | Dragon |  | the dragon's mouth |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into mouth=Destination |
| 7 | **see** | past · passive |  | Dragon |  |  |  |  | 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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