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title: So I hope to-morrow he will kill the dragon altogether, and deliver… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So I hope to-morrow he will kill the dragon altogether, and deliver this land from the monster who has slain so many of our bravest men.” Who acts: I, shepherd, monster. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 19

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So I hope to-morrow he will kill the dragon altogether, and deliver this land from the monster who has slain so many of our bravest men.”

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**Who acts:** I, shepherd, monster · **What happens:** hope, kill, deliver, slay · **To what, where:** dragon, land, many · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, shepherd, monster), 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:pg2435:9:19
# text = So I hope to-morrow he will kill the dragon altogether, and deliver this land from the monster who has slain so many of our bravest men.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | present | I |  |  |  |  | to morrow | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | future | shepherd | the dragon |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme |
| 3 | **deliver** | infinitive | I *not said here* | this land |  |  |  | from the monster | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from monster=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **slay** | present · perfect | the monster | many of our bravest men |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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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