--- title: But in the end, by a well-directed side blow, she cut off one of the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But in the end, by a well-directed side blow, she cut off one of the heads, and with a roar that seemed to rend the heavens in two, the dragon fell back on the ground, and rose as a man before her. Who acts: fight, roar, dragon. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pret --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/116/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/) / 116 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 116 But in the end, by a well-directed side blow, she cut off one of the heads, and with a roar that seemed to rend the heavens in two, the dragon fell back on the ground, and rose as a man before her. **Who acts:** fight, roar, dragon · **What happens:** direct, cut off, seem, rend, fall back, rise · **To what, where:** one, end, heavens, two, ground This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (fight, roar, dragon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:38:116 # text = But in the end, by a well-directed side blow, she cut off one of the heads, and with a roar that seemed to rend the heavens in two, the dragon fell back on the ground, and rose as a man before her. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 directed direct VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 rend rend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 heavens heaven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 38 back back ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 45 as as ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 48 before before ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **direct** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cut off** | past | fight | one of the heads | | | in the end and a directed side blow | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector one=Eventuality | | 3 | **seem** | past | a roar | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **rend** | to-infinitive | a roar *not said here* | the heavens | | two | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Patient | | 5 | **fall back** | past | the dragon | | | the ground | | with a roar | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | | 6 | **rise** | past | fight *not said here* | | | | before dragon | as a man | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/117/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/)