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title: Then the King saw a huge fire burning under the iron room, and under… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King saw a huge fire burning under the iron room, and understood that he could do no harm to the Six in this way. Who acts: King, huge fire. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 57

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Then the King saw a huge fire burning under the iron room, and understood that he could do no harm to the Six in this way.

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**Who acts:** King, huge fire · **What happens:** see, burn, understand, do · **To what, where:** huge fire, iron room, harm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (King, huge fire), 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:pg640:19:57
# text = Then the King saw a huge fire burning under the iron room, and understood that he could do no harm to the Six in this way.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the King | a huge fire |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | a huge fire *not said here* |  |  | the iron room |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under room=Location |
| 3 | **understand** | past | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | could | King | no harm |  |  |  | to the Six in this way | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |

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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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