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title: He did not wish the dragon to know where he lived, lest some day he… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He did not wish the dragon to know where he lived, lest some day he should come to take back his treasure. Who acts: Stan. 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 190

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He did not wish the dragon to know where he lived, lest some day he should come to take back his treasure.

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**Who acts:** Stan · **What happens:** not wish, know, live, come, take back, treasure · **To what, where:** dragon, treasure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Stan), 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:pg641:13:190
# text = He did not wish the dragon to know where he lived, lest some day he should come to take back his treasure.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | Stan | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dragon=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | Stan *not said here* | the dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** | past | Stan |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | should | Stan |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take back** | to-infinitive | Stan *not said here* | Stan's treasure |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 6 | **treasure** |  | Stan |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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