--- title: She made animals out of the ashes that looked and moved like life; a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She made animals out of the ashes that looked and moved like life; and trees with green leaves waving over tiny houses, with men and women an inch high in them, who, when she breathed on them, fell to walking and talking quite properly. Who acts: dreadful, ashes, green leaves, inch. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful, ashes, green leaves, inch), 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:pg14241:16:59 # text = She made animals out of the ashes that looked and moved like life; and trees with green leaves waving over tiny houses, with men and women an inch high in them, who, when she breathed on them, fell to walking and talking quite properly. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 over over ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 inch inch NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 31 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 breathed breathe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 44 to to SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 45 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 conj _ _ 48 quite quite ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 properly properly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | dreadful | animals | | the ashes | | trees with green leaves and men and women *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Product | | 2 | **look** | past | the ashes | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **move** | past | the ashes *not said here* | | | | | like life | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wave** | gerund | green leaves *not said here* | | | tiny houses | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over house=Location | | 5 | **breathe** | past | a inch | | | | | on men *= man* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination | | 6 | **fall** | past | a inch *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **walk** | gerund | a inch *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **talk** | gerund | a inch *not said here* | | | | | properly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/60/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/)