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title: There was a cracking and cracking inside him and all around; there w… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a cracking and cracking inside him and all around; there was just such a frost as a snow-man would delight in. Who acts: cracking, snow man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 176

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There was a cracking and cracking inside him and all around; there was just such a frost as a snow-man would delight in.

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**Who acts:** cracking, snow man · **What happens:** be, crack, delight in · **To what, where:** frost

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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 (cracking, snow man), 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:pg5615:5:176
# text = There was a cracking and cracking inside him and all around; there was just such a frost as a snow-man would delight in.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cracking	cracking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	around	around	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a cracking |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **crack** | gerund | a cracking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside cracking | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside he=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | such frost |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **delight in** | would | a snow man | such frost *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus frost=Experiencer |

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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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