--- title: The Dragon-made a face, and growled again three times, ‘Hum, hum, hu… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Dragon-made a face, and growled again three times, ‘Hum, hum, hum,’ and said to the third, ‘Do you know what your wineglass shall be?’ Who acts: made face, you, wineglass. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (made face, you, wineglass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:9:65 # text = The Dragon-made a face, and growled again three times, ‘Hum, hum, hum,’ and said to the third, ‘Do you know what your wineglass shall be?’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 growled growl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Hum hum VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 hum hum VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 hum hum VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 obj _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 wineglass wineglass NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **growl** | past | the made face | | | | again; time | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hum** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | | 4 | **hum** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | | 5 | **hum** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the made face *not said here* | | | | | to the third | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to third=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 7 | **know** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **be** | shall | your wineglass | | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/9/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/9/66/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon and His Grandmother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/9/)