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title: When you go near it, fire will burst out of its nostrils like flames… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When you go near it, fire will burst out of its nostrils like flames from a pine torch; but be very careful, and take the bridle which is hanging by the door there, and fling the bit straight into his jaws, and then it will become so tame that you will be able to do what you like with it.” Who acts:
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 55

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When you go near it, fire will burst out of its nostrils like flames from a pine torch; but be very careful, and take the bridle which is hanging by the door there, and fling the bit straight into his jaws, and then it will become so tame that you will be able to do what you like with it.”

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**Who acts:** you, fire, bridle, thing · **What happens:** go, burst out, be, take, hang, fling · **To what, where:** thing, nostrils, bridle, bit, jaws

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, 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 (you, fire, bridle, thing), 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:pg503:17:55
# text = When you go near it, fire will burst out of its nostrils like flames from a pine torch; but be very careful, and take the bridle which is hanging by the door there, and fling the bit straight into his jaws, and then it will become so tame that you will be able to do what you like with it.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	fling	fling	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
52	so	so	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	xcomp	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
55	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	cop	_	_
58	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	advcl	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
61	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	60	obj	_	_
62	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	61	acl:relcl	_	_
64	with	with	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | you |  |  | thing |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near it=Location |
| 2 | **burst out** | future | fire | thing's nostrils like flames from a pine torch |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nostril=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | the bridle |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme |
| 5 | **hang** | present · progressive | the bridle |  |  | there |  | by the door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location |
| 6 | **fling** | infinitive |  | the bit |  | king's jaws |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bit=Theme into jaw=Destination |
| 7 | **become** | future | thing |  |  |  | then | tame *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 10 | **like** | present | you |  |  |  |  | with thing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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