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title: So saying she mounted the dragon and flew off, the rockets shooting… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying she mounted the dragon and flew off, the rockets shooting in all directions and leaving long trails of sparks. Who acts: staff, rockets. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 63

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So saying she mounted the dragon and flew off, the rockets shooting in all directions and leaving long trails of sparks.

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**Who acts:** staff, rockets · **What happens:** say, mount, fly off, shoot, leave · **To what, where:** dragon, rockets, directions, long trails · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staff, rockets), 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:pg7277:15:63
# text = So saying she mounted the dragon and flew off, the rockets shooting in all directions and leaving long trails of sparks.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | staff *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mount** | past | staff | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
| 3 | **fly off** | past | staff *not said here* | the rockets |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rocket=Theme |
| 4 | **shoot** | gerund | the rockets *not said here* |  |  | all directions |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in direction=Destination |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | the rockets *not said here* | long trails of sparks |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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