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title: The best and warmest place round the camp fire was always given to t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The best and warmest place round the camp fire was always given to the children, but even so the bitter frost would cause them to shiver. Who acts: bitter frost, children. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 49

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The best and warmest place round the camp fire was always given to the children, but even so the bitter frost would cause them to shiver.

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**Who acts:** bitter frost, children · **What happens:** give, cause, shiver · **To what, where:** best warmest place, children

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bitter frost, children), 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:pg3454:25:49
# text = The best and warmest place round the camp fire was always given to the children, but even so the bitter frost would cause them to shiver.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	warmest	warm	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	shiver	shiver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | the best warmest place round the camp fire | the children |  |  | always *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to child=Recipient |
| 2 | **cause** | would | the bitter frost | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shiver** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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