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title: Then he rode home to the Mother-Dragon, from whom he received this t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he rode home to the Mother-Dragon, from whom he received this time a cloak made of silver, and again she led him to the ball-room. Who acts: King, 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 cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 71

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Then he rode home to the Mother-Dragon, from whom he received this time a cloak made of silver, and again she led him to the ball-room.

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**Who acts:** King, mare · **What happens:** ride, receive, make, lead · **To what, where:** cloak, King, ball room

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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 (King, 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:pg640:34:71
# text = Then he rode home to the Mother-Dragon, from whom he received this time a cloak made of silver, and again she led him to the ball-room.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | King |  |  |  | then | to the Mother; home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to mother=Trajectory |
| 2 | **receive** | past | King |  |  |  | time |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a cloak *not said here* |  |  |  | of silver | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **lead** | past | mare | King |  | the ball room | again |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination |

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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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