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title: In winter, when everything is dead and the ground covered with snow,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In winter, when everything is dead and the ground covered with snow, she must come and live with me in my palace underground.’ Who acts: everything, Queen. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 86

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In winter, when everything is dead and the ground covered with snow, she must come and live with me in my palace underground.’

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**Who acts:** everything, Queen · **What happens:** be, cover, come, live · **To what, where:** ground, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, Queen), 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:pg640:34:86
# text = In winter, when everything is dead and the ground covered with snow, she must come and live with me in my palace underground.’
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | everything |  |  |  | winter | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle · passive |  | the ground |  |  |  | with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | must | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  |  | my palace |  | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=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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