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title: How the Dragon was Tricked The Goblin and the Grocer The House in th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How the Dragon was Tricked The Goblin and the Grocer The House in the Wood Uraschimataro and the Turtle The Slaying of the Tanuki The Flying Trunk The Snow Man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 26

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How the Dragon was Tricked The Goblin and the Grocer The House in the Wood Uraschimataro and the Turtle The Slaying of the Tanuki The Flying Trunk The Snow Man.

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**What happens:** trick, slay · **To what, where:** Dragon, Wood Uraschimataro, Tanuki

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg5615:1:26
# text = How the Dragon was Tricked The Goblin and the Grocer The House in the Wood Uraschimataro and the Turtle The Slaying of the Tanuki The Flying Trunk The Snow Man.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	Tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Grocer	Grocer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Wood	Wood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Slaying	slaying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Flying	Fly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Trunk	Trunk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | past · passive |  | the Dragon |  | the Wood Uraschimataro and the Turtle |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** |  |  | the Tanuki |  |  |  |  | nom slaying «act transitive»: of=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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