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title: She built up the fire, which had got very low, filled the kettle wit… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She built up the fire, which had got very low, filled the kettle with water, and passing a rope which hung from the ceiling through the handle, swung it over the flames. Who acts: woman, fire, rope. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependenc
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 53

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She built up the fire, which had got very low, filled the kettle with water, and passing a rope which hung from the ceiling through the handle, swung it over the flames.

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**Who acts:** woman, fire, rope · **What happens:** build up, get, fill, pass, hang, swing · **To what, where:** fire, kettle, rope, ceiling, flames

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, fire, rope), 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:pg3282:7:53
# text = She built up the fire, which had got very low, filled the kettle with water, and passing a rope which hung from the ceiling through the handle, swung it over the flames.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
20	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
32	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build up** | past | woman | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer fire=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | past · perfect | the fire |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **fill** | past | woman *not said here* | the kettle |  |  |  | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund |  | a rope |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rope=Trajectory |
| 5 | **hang** | past | a rope |  |  | the ceiling |  | through the handle | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through handle=Location |
| 6 | **swing** | past | woman *not said here* | kettle |  | the flames |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme over flame=Trajectory |

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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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