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title: They took care beforehand to make a blazing hot fire under the bath,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They took care beforehand to make a blazing hot fire under the bath, so that the lovely young Queen might be suffocated. Who acts: adventures. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 91

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They took care beforehand to make a blazing hot fire under the bath, so that the lovely young Queen might be suffocated.

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**Who acts:** adventures · **What happens:** take, care, make, blaze, suffocate · **To what, where:** blazing hot fire, bath, lovely young Queen

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures), 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:pg540:10:91
# text = They took care beforehand to make a blazing hot fire under the bath, so that the lovely young Queen might be suffocated.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
4	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
9	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	suffocated	suffocate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | adventures *= adventure* |  |  |  |  | beforehand *property* | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **care** | present | adventures *= adventure* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | adventures *= adventure* *not said here* | a blazing hot fire |  | the bath |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
| 4 | **blaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **suffocate** | might · passive |  | the lovely young Queen |  |  |  |  | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Patient |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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