--- title: But the dragon returned home, and the she-dragon asked him, "What! h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the dragon returned home, and the she-dragon asked him, "What! hast thou not caught them or met them on the road?"--"Met them, no!" said he. " Who acts: dragon, she dragon, thou, man. 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" **Who acts:** dragon, she dragon, thou, man · **What happens:** return, ask, have, not catch, meet, say · **To what, where:** man, lad, road · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, she dragon, thou, man), 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:pg29672:24:119 # text = But the dragon returned home, and the she-dragon asked him, "What! hast thou not caught them or met them on the road?"--"Met them, no!" said he. " 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 18 hast have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 36 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 39 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 39 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | the dragon | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the she dragon | | man | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **catch** *in a quote* | past | thou | lad | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | thou *not said here* | lad | | the road | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | | 6 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | | lad | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/120/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/)