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title: At this dreadful sight the dragon waited no longer: he flung down hi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 200

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At this dreadful sight the dragon waited no longer: he flung down his sacks where he stood and took flight as fast as he could, so terrified at the fate that awaited him that from that day he has never dared to show his face in the world again.

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**Who acts:** dragon, Father, fate · **What happens:** wait, fling down, stand, take, await, not dare · **To what, where:** dreadful sight, sacks, flight, Father, face

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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, Father, fate), 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:pg641:13:200
# text = At this dreadful sight the dragon waited no longer: he flung down his sacks where he stood and took flight as fast as he could, so terrified at the fate that awaited him that from that day he has never dared to show his face in the world again.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	again	again	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | the dragon |  |  | this dreadful sight | day | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location |
| 2 | **fling down** | past | Father | Father's sacks |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | Father |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | Father *not said here* | flight |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme |
| 5 | **await** | past | the fate | Father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **dare** | present · perfect | Father |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **show** | to-infinitive | Father *not said here* | Father's face |  |  | again | in the world | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient in world=Topic |

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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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