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title: On the bridge stood a dragon, but not the same one as he had tried t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the bridge stood a dragon, but not the same one as he had tried to fight with, for this dragon had twelve heads, each more hideous and shooting forth more terrible flames than the other. Who acts: Petru, dragon. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 95

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On the bridge stood a dragon, but not the same one as he had tried to fight with, for this dragon had twelve heads, each more hideous and shooting forth more terrible flames than the other.

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**Who acts:** Petru, dragon · **What happens:** stand, try, fight, have, shoot · **To what, where:** dragon, bridge, twelve heads, terrible flames

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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 (Petru, 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:pg641:19:95
# text = On the bridge stood a dragon, but not the same one as he had tried to fight with, for this dragon had twelve heads, each more hideous and shooting forth more terrible flames than the other.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
33	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a dragon |  | the bridge |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme on bridge=Destination |
| 2 | **try** | past · perfect | Petru |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fight** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Petru *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | this dragon | twelve heads |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **shoot** | gerund |  | terrible flames |  |  |  | than the other | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=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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