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title: Ah! then it froze him, and he crept down again into his warm corner;… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! then it froze him, and he crept down again into his warm corner; there it was comfortable and cosy. Who acts: spite, light. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 81

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Ah! then it froze him, and he crept down again into his warm corner; there it was comfortable and cosy.

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**Who acts:** spite, light · **What happens:** freeze, creep down, be · **To what, where:** light, warm corner

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spite, light), 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:pg5615:2:81
# text = Ah! then it froze him, and he crept down again into his warm corner; there it was comfortable and cosy.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cosy	cosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	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 | **freeze** | past | spite | light |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
| 2 | **creep down** | past | light |  |  | light's warm corner | again | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | spite |  |  | there |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | spite *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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