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title: When the fire had burned itself out and only ashes were left where t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the fire had burned itself out and only ashes were left where the wood had been, Isuro came out of his hole, and said to the people: Who acts: wood, Isuro. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 48

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When the fire had burned itself out and only ashes were left where the wood had been, Isuro came out of his hole, and said to the people:

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**Who acts:** wood, Isuro · **What happens:** burn out, leave, be, come out, say · **To what, where:** fire, ashes, hole, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, Isuro), 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:pg3027:4:48
# text = When the fire had burned itself out and only ashes were left where the wood had been, Isuro came out of his hole, and said to the people:
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | ashes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past · perfect | the wood |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come out** | past | Isuro | Isuro's hole |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Isuro *not said here* |  | the people |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient |

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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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