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title: ‘You are looking for the Mother Dragon’s mare who is galloping about… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You are looking for the Mother Dragon’s mare who is galloping about among the clouds. Who acts: You, mare. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 55

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‘You are looking for the Mother Dragon’s mare who is galloping about among the clouds.

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**Who acts:** You, mare · **What happens:** look, gallop · **To what, where:** clouds

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, mare), 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:pg640:34:55
# text = ‘You are looking for the Mother Dragon’s mare who is galloping about among the clouds.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · progressive | You |  |  |  |  | for the Mother Dragon's mare | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mare=Theme |
| 2 | **gallop** | present · progressive | the Mother Dragon's mare |  |  | the clouds |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among cloud=Trajectory |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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