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title: Soon the dragon’s horse was heard panting behind, and he cried out,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon the dragon’s horse was heard panting behind, and he cried out, ‘Oh, my brother, do not go so fast! Who acts: horse, dragon. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 156

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Soon the dragon’s horse was heard panting behind, and he cried out, ‘Oh, my brother, do not go so fast!

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**Who acts:** horse, dragon · **What happens:** hear, pant, cry out, not go · **To what, where:** horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, dragon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:626`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:7:156
# text = Soon the dragon’s horse was heard panting behind, and he cried out, ‘Oh, my brother, do not go so fast!
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	panting	pant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	vocative	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the dragon's horse |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pant** | gerund | the dragon's horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | dragon |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **go** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | my brother *vocative*; fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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