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title: Just as Paul came along a cloud containing fire instead of rain burs… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as Paul came along a cloud containing fire instead of rain burst overhead, and all the little griffins would certainly have been killed had not Paul spread his cloak over the nest and saved them. Who acts: Paul, cloud. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Boo
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 107

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Just as Paul came along a cloud containing fire instead of rain burst overhead, and all the little griffins would certainly have been killed had not Paul spread his cloak over the nest and saved them.

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**Who acts:** Paul, cloud · **What happens:** come, contain, burst, kill, not spread, save · **To what, where:** fire, cloud, little griffins, cloak, nest, length

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, cloud), 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:pg2435:31:107
# text = Just as Paul came along a cloud containing fire instead of rain burst overhead, and all the little griffins would certainly have been killed had not Paul spread his cloak over the nest and saved them.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
8	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	burst	burst	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	griffins	griffin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Paul |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | a cloud *not said here* | fire |  |  |  | instead rain | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme |
| 3 | **burst** | present | Paul *not said here* |  |  | a cloud |  | overhead *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along cloud=Location |
| 4 | **kill** | would · perfect · passive |  | all little griffins |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **spread** | past | Paul | Paul's cloak |  | the nest |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme over nest=Destination |
| 6 | **save** | past | Paul *not said here* | length |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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