--- title: The snows fell and melted, yet he never returned; and at last the he… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The snows fell and melted, yet he never returned; and at last the heart of the girl grew cold and hard, and her little boy became a burden in her eyes, till one day she spoke thus to him: ‘See, there is food for many days to come. Who acts: snows, snow, little boy, girl. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snows, snow, little boy, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:25:13 # text = The snows fell and melted, yet he never returned; and at last the heart of the girl grew cold and hard, and her little boy became a burden in her eyes, till one day she spoke thus to him: ‘See, there is food for many days to come. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 snows snow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 melted melt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 burden burden NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 till till SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 41 thus thus ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 : : PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 45 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 See see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 49 expl _ _ 49 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 ccomp _ _ 50 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 51 for for ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | the snows | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **melt** | past | the snows *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **return** | past | snow | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | past | the snows *not said here* | | | the last heart of the girl | | cold *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heart=Location | | 5 | **become** | past | girl's little boy | a burden in girl's eyes | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | girl | | boy | | day | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | | 7 | **see** | infinitive | the snows *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **be** | present | food | | | there | day | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **come** | to-infinitive | food *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/14/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/)