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title: Outside the door I have some firewood lying; you must split that for… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Outside the door I have some firewood lying; you must split that for me into little bits that I can kindle the fire with. Who acts: I, firewood, you, little bits. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 14

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Outside the door I have some firewood lying; you must split that for me into little bits that I can kindle the fire with.

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**Who acts:** I, firewood, you, little bits · **What happens:** have, lie, split, kindle · **To what, where:** firewood, that, little bits, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, firewood, you, little bits), 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:pg5615:26:14
# text = Outside the door I have some firewood lying; you must split that for me into little bits that I can kindle the fire with.
1	Outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	kindle	kindle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | some firewood |  |  |  | outside the door | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | some firewood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **split** | must | you | that |  |  |  | into little bits *result*; for me | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent that=Patient into bit=Result |
| 4 | **kindle** | can | little bits | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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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