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title: First they turned him in Janet's arms like frozen ice, then into a h… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: First they turned him in Janet's arms like frozen ice, then into a huge flame of roaring fire. Who acts: spells, huge flame. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 79

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First they turned him in Janet's arms like frozen ice, then into a huge flame of roaring fire.

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**Who acts:** spells, huge flame · **What happens:** turn, freeze, roar · **To what, where:** Tamlane, fire

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spells, huge flame), 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:pg14241:29:79
# text = First they turned him in Janet's arms like frozen ice, then into a huge flame of roaring fire.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Janet	Janet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | spells *= spell* | Tamlane |  |  |  | into a huge flame; in Janet's arms like frozen ice; first *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient in arm=Topic into flame=Recipient |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **roar** | gerund | a huge flame *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=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:** «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.

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