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title: The pleasant warmth of the air revived him, and he felt very hungry;… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The pleasant warmth of the air revived him, and he felt very hungry; but there seemed to be nobody in all this vast and splendid palace whom he could ask to give him something to eat. Who acts: pleasant warmth, merchant, vast palace. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 35

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The pleasant warmth of the air revived him, and he felt very hungry; but there seemed to be nobody in all this vast and splendid palace whom he could ask to give him something to eat.

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**Who acts:** pleasant warmth, merchant, vast palace · **What happens:** revive, feel, seem, be, ask, give · **To what, where:** merchant, nobody, vast palace, something

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasant warmth, merchant, vast palace), 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:pg503:14:35
# text = The pleasant warmth of the air revived him, and he felt very hungry; but there seemed to be nobody in all this vast and splendid palace whom he could ask to give him something to eat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	revived	revive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
25	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
29	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revive** | past | the pleasant warmth of the air | merchant |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | past | merchant |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **seem** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | nobody |  | all vast palace |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | could | merchant | all vast palace |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all vast palace *not said here* | something | merchant |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme |
| 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | all vast palace *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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