--- title: ‘Ask the dragon when he comes home,’ said the prince, ‘where he got… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Ask the dragon when he comes home,’ said the prince, ‘where he got that wonderful horse from, and then you can tell me, and I will try to find another like it.’ Who acts: dragon, you, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/75/) [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 Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/) / 75 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 75 ‘Ask the dragon when he comes home,’ said the prince, ‘where he got that wonderful horse from, and then you can tell me, and I will try to find another like it.’ **Who acts:** dragon, you, I · **What happens:** ask, come, say, get, tell, try · **To what, where:** dragon, prince, wonderful horse, me, another · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dragon, you, I), 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:pg641:7:75 # text = ‘Ask the dragon when he comes home,’ said the prince, ‘where he got that wonderful horse from, and then you can tell me, and I will try to find another like it.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 home home ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 20 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 36 obj _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | the dragon | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dragon=Recipient | | 2 | **come** | present | dragon | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the prince | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | past | dragon | that wonderful horse | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you | | me | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 6 | **try** | future | I | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | another | | | | like scheme | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Topic | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/76/) - ↑ back to [The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/)