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title: ‘The day is so warm, and the sun’s rays so scorching, that the water… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The day is so warm, and the sun’s rays so scorching, that the water in the pond looks very cool and inviting. Who acts: day, rays, water, sun. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 14

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‘The day is so warm, and the sun’s rays so scorching, that the water in the pond looks very cool and inviting.

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**Who acts:** day, rays, water, sun · **What happens:** be, scorch, look, invite, ray

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, rays, water, sun), 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:pg640:29:14
# text = ‘The day is so warm, and the sun’s rays so scorching, that the water in the pond looks very cool and inviting.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	scorching	scorch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the day |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scorch** | gerund | the sun's rays |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | present | the water in the pond |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **invite** | gerund | the water in the pond *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ray** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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