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title: Hastily putting out the fire which burned brightly at the back, and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hastily putting out the fire which burned brightly at the back, and bidding his mother come in and keep very still, the prince began to pace up and down, listening for the return of the robbers. Who acts: prince, fire, robbers. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 101

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Hastily putting out the fire which burned brightly at the back, and bidding his mother come in and keep very still, the prince began to pace up and down, listening for the return of the robbers.

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**Who acts:** prince, fire, robbers · **What happens:** put out, burn, bid, come in, keep, begin · **To what, where:** fire, back, mother, pace

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, fire, robbers), 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:pg2435:14:101
# text = Hastily putting out the fire which burned brightly at the back, and bidding his mother come in and keep very still, the prince began to pace up and down, listening for the return of the robbers.
1	Hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal |
| 2 | **burn** | past | the fire |  |  | the back |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at back=Location |
| 3 | **bid** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | Prince's mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come in** | infinitive | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **begin** | past | the prince | pace |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pace=Eventuality |
| 7 | **listen** | gerund | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the return of the robbers | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for return=Theme |
| 8 | **return** |  | the robbers |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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