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title: In the winter they could not do this, but then they put hot pennies… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the winter they could not do this, but then they put hot pennies against the frozen window-panes, and made round holes to look at each other through. Who acts: peas. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 52

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In the winter they could not do this, but then they put hot pennies against the frozen window-panes, and made round holes to look at each other through.

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**Who acts:** peas · **What happens:** not do, put, make, look · **To what, where:** this, hot pennies, frozen window panes, round holes

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peas), 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:pg5615:8:52
# text = In the winter they could not do this, but then they put hot pennies against the frozen window-panes, and made round holes to look at each other through.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	28	obl	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	fixed	_	_
32	through	through	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | could | peas *= pea* | this |  |  | winter |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put** | past | peas *= pea* | hot pennies |  | the frozen window panes | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent penny=Theme against pane=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past | peas *= pea* *not said here* | round holes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | peas *= pea* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at each; through *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=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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