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title: One winter, which nobody living will ever forget, the snow lay so de… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One winter, which nobody living will ever forget, the snow lay so deep that it came up to the knees of even the tallest man. Who acts: nobody living, snow. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 1

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One winter, which nobody living will ever forget, the snow lay so deep that it came up to the knees of even the tallest man.

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**Who acts:** nobody living, snow · **What happens:** forget, lie, come up · **To what, where:** One winter, knees

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody living, snow), 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:pg5615:16:1
# text = One winter, which nobody living will ever forget, the snow lay so deep that it came up to the knees of even the tallest man.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	compound	_	_
6	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | future | nobody living | One winter |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the snow |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come up** | past | snow |  |  | the knees of the tallest man |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to knee=Initial\_Location |

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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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