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title: A few yards further he saw a huge oven, with a wide, red-hot gaping… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A few yards further he saw a huge oven, with a wide, red-hot gaping mouth. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 78

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A few yards further he saw a huge oven, with a wide, red-hot gaping mouth.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** huge oven

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg540:40:78
# text = A few yards further he saw a huge oven, with a wide, red-hot gaping mouth.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
13	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	gaping	gaping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Prince | a huge oven |  |  |  | a wide red hot gaping mouth *obl*; far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oven=Stimulus |

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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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