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title: The whole day the Snow-man looked through the window; towards dusk t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole day the Snow-man looked through the window; towards dusk the room grew still more inviting; the stove gave out a mild light, not at all like the moon or even the sun; no, as only a stove can shine, when it has something to feed upon. Who acts: Snow man, room, stove. A sentence of «The Pink
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 169

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The whole day the Snow-man looked through the window; towards dusk the room grew still more inviting; the stove gave out a mild light, not at all like the moon or even the sun; no, as only a stove can shine, when it has something to feed upon.

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**Who acts:** Snow man, room, stove · **What happens:** look, grow, invite, give out, shine, have · **To what, where:** mild light, all, something

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow man, room, stove), 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:pg5615:5:169
# text = The whole day the Snow-man looked through the window; towards dusk the room grew still more inviting; the stove gave out a mild light, not at all like the moon or even the sun; no, as only a stove can shine, when it has something to feed upon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
20	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	iobj	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
41	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	48	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	only	only	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	parataxis	_	_
53	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	52	obj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	acl	_	_
56	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the Snow man |  |  |  | day | through the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the room |  |  |  | dusk |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **invite** | gerund | the room *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give out** | past | the stove | a mild light | all |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shine** | can | a stove |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | present | room | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 7 | **feed** | to-infinitive | room *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |

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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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