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title: When you see that we are right above the dragon cut off his biggest… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When you see that we are right above the dragon cut off his biggest head, wipe the blood off the sword, and put it back clean in the sheath before we touch earth again.’ Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with its dependency tree a
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 102

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When you see that we are right above the dragon cut off his biggest head, wipe the blood off the sword, and put it back clean in the sheath before we touch earth again.’

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** see, be, cut off, wipe, put back, touch · **To what, where:** biggest head, blood, sword, sheath, earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg641:19:102
# text = When you see that we are right above the dragon cut off his biggest head, wipe the blood off the sword, and put it back clean in the sheath before we touch earth again.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sheath	sheath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
35	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | above the dragon; right *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut off** | past | we | dragon's biggest head |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wipe** | imperative | you *not said here* | the blood |  | the sword |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent blood=Theme off sword=Trajectory |
| 5 | **put back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | sword |  | the sheath |  | clean *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sheath=Destination |
| 6 | **touch** | present | we | earth |  |  | again |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme |

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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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