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title: But when the fire grew hotter still he moved uneasily from one foot… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the fire grew hotter still he moved uneasily from one foot to the other, saying, imploringly: “It is getting rather warm, old man.” Who acts: fire, fox. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 7

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But when the fire grew hotter still he moved uneasily from one foot to the other, saying, imploringly: “It is getting rather warm, old man.”

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**Who acts:** fire, fox · **What happens:** grow, move, say, get · **To what, where:** one foot, warm old man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, fox), 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:pg3282:27:7
# text = But when the fire grew hotter still he moved uneasily from one foot to the other, saying, imploringly: “It is getting rather warm, old man.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	uneasily	uneasily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	imploringly	imploringly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
26	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the fire |  |  |  | still | hot *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | past | fox |  |  | one foot |  | to the other; uneasily *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from foot=Initial\_Location to other=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | imploringly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | present · progressive | fire | warm old man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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