--- title: When all was over, and the power of the dragon was broken for ever,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When all was over, and the power of the dragon was broken for ever, he rode quickly back to the castle, and was ready to receive the prince with open arms, and to promise him his daughter to wife. Who acts: all, dragon. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/51/) [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/) / 51 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 51 When all was over, and the power of the dragon was broken for ever, he rode quickly back to the castle, and was ready to receive the prince with open arms, and to promise him his daughter to wife. **Who acts:** all, dragon · **What happens:** be, break, ride back, receive, promise · **To what, where:** power, castle, prince, daughter 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 (all, 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:pg2435:9:51 # text = When all was over, and the power of the dragon was broken for ever, he rode quickly back to the castle, and was ready to receive the prince with open arms, and to promise him his daughter to wife. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 over over ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 19 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 iobj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | all | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | past · passive | | the power of the dragon | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **ride back** | past | dragon | | | the castle | | quickly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory | | 4 | **is** | past | dragon *not said here* | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **receive** | to-infinitive | dragon *not said here* | the prince | | | | with open arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | | 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive | dragon *not said here* | prince | dragon's daughter | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Goal he=Theme | 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: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/52/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/)