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title: Very soon the dragon stole softly into the room, and gave a tremendo… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon the dragon stole softly into the room, and gave a tremendous blow on the spot where Stan’s head should have been. Who acts: dragon. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 163

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Very soon the dragon stole softly into the room, and gave a tremendous blow on the spot where Stan’s head should have been.

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**Who acts:** dragon · **What happens:** steal, give · **To what, where:** room, tremendous blow, spot

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg641:13:163
# text = Very soon the dragon stole softly into the room, and gave a tremendous blow on the spot where Stan’s head should have been.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
20	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | the dragon |  |  | the room |  | softly, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | the dragon *not said here* | a tremendous blow |  | the spot |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent blow=Theme on spot=Asset |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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