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description: You can hear him snoring a mile off, and then you must go into his room and pull off the iron mantle that covers him, and put it on the fire till it is almost red hot. Who acts: You, Stalo, iron mantle, mantle. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependen
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 10

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You can hear him snoring a mile off, and then you must go into his room and pull off the iron mantle that covers him, and put it on the fire till it is almost red hot.

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**Who acts:** You, Stalo, iron mantle, mantle · **What happens:** hear, snore off, go, pull off, cover, put · **To what, where:** Stalo, mile, room, iron mantle, mantle, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Stalo, iron mantle, mantle), 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:pg3027:36:10
# text = You can hear him snoring a mile off, and then you must go into his room and pull off the iron mantle that covers him, and put it on the fire till it is almost red hot.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | can | You | Stalo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **snore off** | gerund | Stalo *not said here* | a mile |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | must | you |  |  | Stalo's room | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **pull off** | present | you *not said here* | the iron mantle |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Eventuality |
| 5 | **cover** | present | the iron mantle |  | Stalo |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |
| 6 | **put** | infinitive | You *not said here* | mantle |  | the fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 7 | **is** | present | mantle |  |  |  |  | almost, hot *property* | tree rules |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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