--- title: The dragon, that guards buried treasure, lifted his head and gazed a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The dragon, that guards buried treasure, lifted his head and gazed after them. Who acts: guards, dragon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, 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/pg27200/87/5/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/) / 5 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 5 The dragon, that guards buried treasure, lifted his head and gazed after them. **Who acts:** guards, dragon · **What happens:** bury, lift, gaze · **To what, where:** treasure, head This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, 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:pg27200:87:5 # text = The dragon, that guards buried treasure, lifted his head and gazed after them. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | participle | that guards *not said here* | treasure | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | | 2 | **lift** | past | the dragon and that guards | perfume's head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **gaze** | past | the dragon and that guards *not said here* | | | | after dragon | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/6/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/)