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title: After remaining in his own home for some weeks, he heard people say… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After remaining in his own home for some weeks, he heard people say that the terrible Dragon of the North was not far off, and might shortly be expected in the country. Who acts: wisdom, people, terrible Dragon. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with i
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 149

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After remaining in his own home for some weeks, he heard people say that the terrible Dragon of the North was not far off, and might shortly be expected in the country.

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**Who acts:** wisdom, people, terrible Dragon · **What happens:** remain, hear, say, not be, expect · **To what, where:** own home, country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wisdom, people, terrible 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:pg640:5:149
# text = After remaining in his own home for some weeks, he heard people say that the terrible Dragon of the North was not far off, and might shortly be expected in the country.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	off	off	ADV	RB	_	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | gerund | wisdom *not said here* |  |  | wisdom's own home | week |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | past | wisdom |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | the terrible Dragon of the North |  |  |  |  | far, off *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **expect** | might · passive | wisdom *not said here* |  |  | the country |  | shortly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» |

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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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