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title: They quenched the flames and put out the fire, and, unbinding their… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They quenched the flames and put out the fire, and, unbinding their dear sister from the stake, they kissed and hugged her again and again. Who acts: ravens. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 91

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They quenched the flames and put out the fire, and, unbinding their dear sister from the stake, they kissed and hugged her again and again.

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**Who acts:** ravens · **What happens:** quench, put out, unbind, kiss, hug · **To what, where:** flames, fire, dear sister, stake, sister

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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 (ravens), 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:pg540:41:91
# text = They quenched the flames and put out the fire, and, unbinding their dear sister from the stake, they kissed and hugged her again and again.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	quenched	quench	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	unbinding	unbind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hugged	hug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quench** | past | ravens *= raven* | the flames |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus flame=Experiencer |
| 2 | **put out** | participle | ravens *= raven* *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **unbind** | gerund | ravens *= raven* *not said here* | ravens's dear sister |  | the stake |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kiss** | past | ravens *= raven* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hug** | past | ravens *= raven* *not said here* | sister |  |  | again |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |

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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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