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title: There he sat, lighted up by the flames from the burning house opposi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There he sat, lighted up by the flames from the burning house opposite, both hands holding tightly on his red cap, in which lay the treasure; and now he knew what his heart really valued most--to whom he really belonged. Who acts: Grocer, hands, heart. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew L
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 94

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There he sat, lighted up by the flames from the burning house opposite, both hands holding tightly on his red cap, in which lay the treasure; and now he knew what his heart really valued most--to whom he really belonged.

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**Who acts:** Grocer, hands, heart · **What happens:** sit up, light up, hold, lie, know, value · **To what, where:** house opposite, red cap, treasure, most

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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, hands, heart), 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:pg5615:2:94
# text = There he sat, lighted up by the flames from the burning house opposite, both hands holding tightly on his red cap, in which lay the treasure; and now he knew what his heart really valued most--to whom he really belonged.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
18	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
35	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	39	obj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	really	really	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	valued	value	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
40	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	really	really	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | past | Grocer |  |  | the house opposite; there |  | by the flames | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by flame=Location |
| 2 | **light up** | participle | Grocer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | both hands *not said here* |  |  | Grocer's red cap |  | tightly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cap=Location |
| 4 | **lie** | past |  | the treasure |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | past | Grocer |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **value** | past | Grocer's heart | most |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **belong** | past | Grocer |  |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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