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title: The dragon on the bridge was more fearful and his three heads more t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The dragon on the bridge was more fearful and his three heads more terrible than before, and the young hero rode away still faster than his brother had done. Who acts: dragon, three heads, young hero, brother. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 54

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The dragon on the bridge was more fearful and his three heads more terrible than before, and the young hero rode away still faster than his brother had done.

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**Who acts:** dragon, three heads, young hero, brother · **What happens:** be, ride away, do

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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 (dragon, three heads, young hero, brother), 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:pg641:19:54
# text = The dragon on the bridge was more fearful and his three heads more terrible than before, and the young hero rode away still faster than his brother had done.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dragon on the bridge |  |  |  |  | fearful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | dragon's three heads |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride away** | past | the young hero |  |  |  |  | away, fast *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | dragon's brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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