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title: But just as she had been bound to the stake, and the flames were lic… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But just as she had been bound to the stake, and the flames were licking her garments with their red tongues, the very last moment of the seven years had come. Who acts: flames, last moment. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 88

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But just as she had been bound to the stake, and the flames were licking her garments with their red tongues, the very last moment of the seven years had come.

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**Who acts:** flames, last moment · **What happens:** bind, lick, come · **To what, where:** Queen, garments, red tongues

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames, last moment), 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:pg540:41:88
# text = But just as she had been bound to the stake, and the flames were licking her garments with their red tongues, the very last moment of the seven years had come.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	licking	lick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | past · perfect · passive |  | Queen |  |  |  | to the stake | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to stake=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **lick** | past · progressive | the flames | Queen's garments |  |  |  | with flames's red tongues | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent garment=Experiencer with tongue=Instrument |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | the last moment of the seven years | flames's red tongues *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tongue=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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