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title: When the sun set they lit a fire of dry grass, and placed themselves… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the sun set they lit a fire of dry grass, and placed themselves in a row, Snowflake being the last of all. Who acts: sun, eyes, Snowflake. 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 65

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When the sun set they lit a fire of dry grass, and placed themselves in a row, Snowflake being the last of all.

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**Who acts:** sun, eyes, Snowflake · **What happens:** set, light, place, be, fire · **To what, where:** fire, eyes, row, dry grass

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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 (sun, eyes, Snowflake), 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:pg5615:16:65
# text = When the sun set they lit a fire of dry grass, and placed themselves in a row, Snowflake being the last of all.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **light** | past | eyes *= eye* | a fire of dry grass |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 3 | **place** | past | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  | a row |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in row=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | Snowflake | a row *not said here* |  |  |  | of all; last *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fire** |  |  | dry grass |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=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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