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title: The next night there was not only wood and fire, but a piece of meat… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next night there was not only wood and fire, but a piece of meat in the kettle, nearly ready for eating. Who acts: next night. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 11

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The next night there was not only wood and fire, but a piece of meat in the kettle, nearly ready for eating.

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**Who acts:** next night · **What happens:** not be, eat · **To what, where:** wood

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next night), 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:pg640:27:11
# text = The next night there was not only wood and fire, but a piece of meat in the kettle, nearly ready for eating.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | the next night | wood and fire but a piece of meat in the kettle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | the next night *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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