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title: But it was the dragon and nothing else, whose six wings were carryin… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was the dragon and nothing else, whose six wings were carrying him forward as fast as might be, considering his great weight and the length of his tail, which had fifty twists and a half. Who acts: body, six wings, tail. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 63

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But it was the dragon and nothing else, whose six wings were carrying him forward as fast as might be, considering his great weight and the length of his tail, which had fifty twists and a half.

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**Who acts:** body, six wings, tail · **What happens:** be, carry, consider, have · **To what, where:** dragon, king, great weight, fifty twists

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, six wings, tail), 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:pg3027:29:63
# text = But it was the dragon and nothing else, whose six wings were carrying him forward as fast as might be, considering his great weight and the length of his tail, which had fifty twists and a half.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	conj	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	twists	twist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | body | the dragon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | past · progressive | six wings | king |  |  |  | fast, forward *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **consider** | gerund | six wings *not said here* | king's great weight and the length of king's tail |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent weight=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | past | king's tail | fifty twists and a half |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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