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title: Two eyes of flame came creeping nearer, nearer, and two fiery tongue… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Two eyes of flame came creeping nearer, nearer, and two fiery tongues were stretching themselves out closer, closer, to the little birds who were trembling and shuddering in the farthest corner of the nest. Who acts: Two eyes, two fiery tongues, little birds. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» b
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 7

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Two eyes of flame came creeping nearer, nearer, and two fiery tongues were stretching themselves out closer, closer, to the little birds who were trembling and shuddering in the farthest corner of the nest.

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**Who acts:** Two eyes, two fiery tongues, little birds · **What happens:** come, creep, stretch out, tremble, shudder · **To what, where:** eyes, farthest corner

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two eyes, two fiery tongues, little birds), 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:pg2435:10:7
# text = Two eyes of flame came creeping nearer, nearer, and two fiery tongues were stretching themselves out closer, closer, to the little birds who were trembling and shuddering in the farthest corner of the nest.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	shuddering	shudder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Two eyes of flame |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund | Two eyes of flame *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch out** | past · progressive | two fiery tongues | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | to the little birds *result*; close *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to bird=Result |
| 4 | **tremble** | past · progressive | the little birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shudder** | gerund | the little birds *not said here* |  |  | the farthest corner of the nest |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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