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title: But when the sun was once more high in the heavens, Ferko felt the b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the sun was once more high in the heavens, Ferko felt the blazing heat scorch him, and sought for some cool shady place to rest his aching limbs. Who acts: sun, Ferko. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 25

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But when the sun was once more high in the heavens, Ferko felt the blazing heat scorch him, and sought for some cool shady place to rest his aching limbs.

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**Who acts:** sun, Ferko · **What happens:** be, feel, seek, rest · **To what, where:** heavens, blazing heat scorch, aching limbs

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Ferko), 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:pg640:14:25
# text = But when the sun was once more high in the heavens, Ferko felt the blazing heat scorch him, and sought for some cool shady place to rest his aching limbs.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	blazing	blazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	scorch	scorch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
25	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	aching	aching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sun |  |  | the heavens |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Ferko | the blazing heat scorch |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorch=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | past | Ferko *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for some cool shady place | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for place=Theme |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Ferko *not said here* | Ferko's aching limbs |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location limb=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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