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title: With the first breath of flame that swept over her when she ran with… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With the first breath of flame that swept over her when she ran with her friends Snowflake had melted away, and a little soft haze floating upwards was all that remained of her. Who acts: that, Snowflake, little soft haze. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 89

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With the first breath of flame that swept over her when she ran with her friends Snowflake had melted away, and a little soft haze floating upwards was all that remained of her.

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**Who acts:** that, Snowflake, little soft haze · **What happens:** sweep, run, melt away, float, remain · **To what, where:** friends

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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 (that, Snowflake, little soft haze), 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:pg5615:16:89
# text = With the first breath of flame that swept over her when she ran with her friends Snowflake had melted away, and a little soft haze floating upwards was all that remained of her.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	haze	haze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
27	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	appos	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | past | that |  |  |  |  | with the first breath of flame | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past | Snowflake |  |  |  |  | with Snowflake's friends | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with friend=Material |
| 3 | **melt away** | past · perfect | Snowflake | Snowflake's friends *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient friend=Result |
| 4 | **float** | gerund | a little soft haze *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **remain** | past | that |  |  |  |  | of Snowflake | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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