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title: The furnace was soon hot, but this time Drakestail was not so afraid… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The furnace was soon hot, but this time Drakestail was not so afraid; he counted on his sweetheart, my friend River. Who acts: furnace, time, Drakestail. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 84

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The furnace was soon hot, but this time Drakestail was not so afraid; he counted on his sweetheart, my friend River.

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**Who acts:** furnace, time, Drakestail · **What happens:** be, not be, count

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (furnace, time, Drakestail), 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:pg540:31:84
# text = The furnace was soon hot, but this time Drakestail was not so afraid; he counted on his sweetheart, my friend River.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
24	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the furnace |  |  |  |  | hot, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | this time |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | past | Drakestail |  |  |  |  | on Drakestail's sweetheart | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on sweetheart=Theme |

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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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