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title: The biting cold winds became quiet as if they had fallen asleep when… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The biting cold winds became quiet as if they had fallen asleep when she appeared in the great, empty, freezing hall. Who acts: biting, winds. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 117

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The biting cold winds became quiet as if they had fallen asleep when she appeared in the great, empty, freezing hall.

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**Who acts:** biting, winds · **What happens:** become, fall, appear, freeze · **To what, where:** great freezing hall

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (biting, winds), 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:pg5615:10:117
# text = The biting cold winds became quiet as if they had fallen asleep when she appeared in the great, empty, freezing hall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	biting	biting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	amod	_	_
23	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the biting |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | past · perfect | winds *= wind* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **appear** | past | biting |  |  | the great freezing hall |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location |
| 4 | **freeze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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