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title: A few snow-flakes were falling outside, and one of the, the largest,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A few snow-flakes were falling outside, and one of the, the largest, lay on the edge of one of the window-boxes. Who acts: few snow flakes, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 66

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A few snow-flakes were falling outside, and one of the, the largest, lay on the edge of one of the window-boxes.

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**Who acts:** few snow flakes, one · **What happens:** fall, lay · **To what, where:** edge

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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 (few snow flakes, one), 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:pg5615:8:66
# text = A few snow-flakes were falling outside, and one of the, the largest, lay on the edge of one of the window-boxes.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · progressive | a few snow flakes |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | present | one of the largest |  |  | the edge of one of the window boxes |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on edge=Destination |

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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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