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title: Indeed, it would be truer to say that he never was warm at all; and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, it would be truer to say that he never was warm at all; and at last, after one bitter night, his legs moved so slowly that the ice crept closer and closer, and when the morning light broke he was caught fast, as in a trap; and soon his senses went from him. Who acts: it, neck, legs, ice. A s
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 89

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Indeed, it would be truer to say that he never was warm at all; and at last, after one bitter night, his legs moved so slowly that the ice crept closer and closer, and when the morning light broke he was caught fast, as in a trap; and soon his senses went from him.

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**Who acts:** it, neck, legs, ice, morning light, senses · **What happens:** be, say, not be, move, creep, break · **To what, where:** all, neck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, neck, legs, ice), 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:pg3027:9:89
# text = Indeed, it would be truer to say that he never was warm at all; and at last, after one bitter night, his legs moved so slowly that the ice crept closer and closer, and when the morning light broke he was caught fast, as in a trap; and soon his senses went from him.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	truer	true	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
35	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	44	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	parataxis	_	_
48	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	59	advmod	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nsubj	_	_
59	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
60	from	from	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | it |  |  |  |  | indeed, true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | neck |  |  | all |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **move** | past | neck's legs |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **creep** | past | the ice |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **break** | past | the morning light |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **catch** | past · passive |  | neck |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **go** | past | neck's senses |  |  |  |  | from neck; soon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |

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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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