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title: In the middle of the wood he came upon a meadow, where a fire was bu… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the wood he came upon a meadow, where a fire was burning, and in the midst of the fire, surrounded by flames, was a lovely damsel, more beautiful than anything that Martin had ever seen, and when she saw him she called to him: Who acts: Martin, fire. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 50

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In the middle of the wood he came upon a meadow, where a fire was burning, and in the midst of the fire, surrounded by flames, was a lovely damsel, more beautiful than anything that Martin had ever seen, and when she saw him she called to him:

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**Who acts:** Martin, fire · **What happens:** come, burn, surround, be, see, call · **To what, where:** middle, fire, lovely damsel, midst, Martin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, 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:pg640:33:50
# text = In the middle of the wood he came upon a meadow, where a fire was burning, and in the midst of the fire, surrounded by flames, was a lovely damsel, more beautiful than anything that Martin had ever seen, and when she saw him she called to him:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	37	obl	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	44	advmod	_	_
44	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Martin |  |  | the middle of the wood |  | upon a meadow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |
| 2 | **burn** | past · progressive | a fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **surround** | participle |  | the fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a lovely damsel |  | the midst of the fire |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | Martin |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **see** | past | fire | Martin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 7 | **call** | past | fire |  | Martin |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |

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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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