--- title: “Dragon! dragon! if you are not a coward, come out and fight with me!” — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Dragon! dragon! if you are not a coward, come out and fight with me!” Who acts: you, Dragon dragon. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/) / 1 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 1 “Dragon! dragon! if you are not a coward, come out and fight with me!” **Who acts:** you, Dragon dragon · **What happens:** not be, come out, fight · **To what, where:** coward This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Dragon dragon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:9:1 # text = “Dragon! dragon! if you are not a coward, come out and fight with me!” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 coward coward NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 out out ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | a coward | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dragon dragon | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **fight** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dragon dragon *not said here* | | | | | with me | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/8/105/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/2/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/)