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title: “Dragon! dragon! if you are not a coward, come forth, and let us hav… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Dragon! dragon! if you are not a coward, come forth, and let us have one more fight together.” Who acts: you, Dragon dragon, us. 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.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 29

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“Dragon! dragon! if you are not a coward, come forth, and let us have one more fight together.”

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**Who acts:** you, Dragon dragon, us · **What happens:** not be, come, let, have · **To what, where:** coward, us, one more fight

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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 (you, Dragon dragon, us), 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:pg2435:9:29
# text = “Dragon! dragon! if you are not a coward, come forth, and let us have one more fight together.”
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	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dragon dragon |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dragon dragon *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | one more fight |  |  |  | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=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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