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title: Opening his mouth to its very widest, he gave an awful roar; but the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Opening his mouth to its very widest, he gave an awful roar; but the other dragon only roared back. Who acts: dragon, other dragon. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 108

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Opening his mouth to its very widest, he gave an awful roar; but the other dragon only roared back.

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**Who acts:** dragon, other dragon · **What happens:** open, give, roar back · **To what, where:** mouth, widest, awful roar

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, other dragon), 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:pg3282:37:108
# text = Opening his mouth to its very widest, he gave an awful roar; but the other dragon only roared back.
1	Opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	widest	wide	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | gerund | dragon *not said here* | dragon's mouth | mouth's widest |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient to wide=Recipient |
| 2 | **give** | past | dragon | a awful roar |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme |
| 3 | **roar back** | past | the other dragon |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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