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title: ‘It is for the young man who killed my wife, and stole my flying hor… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘It is for the young man who killed my wife, and stole my flying horse and my bed covering,’ said the dragon. Who acts: box, young man, flying horse. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 13

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‘It is for the young man who killed my wife, and stole my flying horse and my bed covering,’ said the dragon.

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**Who acts:** box, young man, flying horse · **What happens:** be, kill, steal, fly, cover, say · **To what, where:** wife, flying horse, dragon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (box, young man, flying horse), 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:pg5615:2:13
# text = ‘It is for the young man who killed my wife, and stole my flying horse and my bed covering,’ said the dragon.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | box |  |  |  |  | for the young man | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the young man | my wife |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 3 | **steal** | past | the young man *not said here* | my flying horse and my bed |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cover** | gerund | my flying horse and my bed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young man | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic |

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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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