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title: The old Fairy led her to a pretty room which she said should be hers… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old Fairy led her to a pretty room which she said should be hers, at the same time giving her the strictest orders never to let out the fire which was burning brightly in the grate. Who acts: old Fairy, child, same time, fire. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mount
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 55

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The old Fairy led her to a pretty room which she said should be hers, at the same time giving her the strictest orders never to let out the fire which was burning brightly in the grate.

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**Who acts:** old Fairy, child, same time, fire · **What happens:** lead, say, be, give, not let out, burn · **To what, where:** child, pretty room, dog, strictest orders, fire, grate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Fairy, child, same time, 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:pg640:23:55
# text = The old Fairy led her to a pretty room which she said should be hers, at the same time giving her the strictest orders never to let out the fire which was burning brightly in the grate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	strictest	strict	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	grate	grate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the old Fairy | child |  | a pretty room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to room=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | child | a pretty room |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | should |  | dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | the same time *not said here* | the strictest orders | child |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient order=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **let out** | to-infinitive |  | the fire |  |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 6 | **burn** | past · progressive | the fire |  |  | the grate |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grate=Location |

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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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