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title: He was standing quietly by the open window looking at the fire that… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was standing quietly by the open window looking at the fire that was burning in the neighbour’s house just opposite. Who acts: Grocer, fire. 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 91

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He was standing quietly by the open window looking at the fire that was burning in the neighbour’s house just opposite.

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**Who acts:** Grocer, fire · **What happens:** stand, look, burn · **To what, where:** house

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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 (Grocer, fire), 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:pg5615:2:91
# text = He was standing quietly by the open window looking at the fire that was burning in the neighbour’s house just opposite.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | Grocer |  |  |  |  | by the open window; quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | Grocer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the fire | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fire=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | past · progressive | the fire |  |  | the neighbour's house |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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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