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title: There the old man lighted a fire of straw, and then drew from an old… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There the old man lighted a fire of straw, and then drew from an old box his wife’s dress and shoes, which the Princess put on, and thus roughly clad looked as charming as possible, and Frisk danced his very best to amuse her. Who acts: old man, dress, Frisk. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by An
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 221

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There the old man lighted a fire of straw, and then drew from an old box his wife’s dress and shoes, which the Princess put on, and thus roughly clad looked as charming as possible, and Frisk danced his very best to amuse her.

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**Who acts:** old man, dress, Frisk · **What happens:** light, draw, princess, put on, look, dance · **To what, where:** fire, dress, old box, Princess, best, wife

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, dress, Frisk), 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:pg540:11:221
# text = There the old man lighted a fire of straw, and then drew from an old box his wife’s dress and shoes, which the Princess put on, and thus roughly clad looked as charming as possible, and Frisk danced his very best to amuse her.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	clad	clad	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	very	very	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	43	obj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | participle | the old man | a fire of straw |  | there |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 2 | **draw** | past | the old man *not said here* | Frisk's wife's dress and shoes and the Princess |  | a old box | then |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent dress=Theme from box=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **princess** |  | Frisk's wife's dress and shoes and the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put on** | participle |  | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as charming | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» |
| 6 | **dance** | past | Frisk | Frisk's best |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location good=Theme |
| 7 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | Frisk *not said here* | wife |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 8 | **fire** |  |  | straw |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=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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