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title: But, fortunately, his comrade with the straw on his back had entered… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, fortunately, his comrade with the straw on his back had entered behind him, and when the door was shut upon them he scattered the straw about, and suddenly the red-hot walls cooled down, and it became so very cold that the Simpleton could scarcely bear to take a bath, and all the water in the r
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 122

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But, fortunately, his comrade with the straw on his back had entered behind him, and when the door was shut upon them he scattered the straw about, and suddenly the red-hot walls cooled down, and it became so very cold that the Simpleton could scarcely bear to take a bath, and all the water in the room froze.

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**Who acts:** King, hot walls, Simpleton, water · **What happens:** enter, shut, scatter, cool down, become, bear · **To what, where:** comrade, door, straw, bath

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, hot walls, Simpleton, water), 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:pg640:35:122
# text = But, fortunately, his comrade with the straw on his back had entered behind him, and when the door was shut upon them he scattered the straw about, and suddenly the red-hot walls cooled down, and it became so very cold that the Simpleton could scarcely bear to take a bath, and all the water in the room froze.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
33	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
39	cooled	cool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
40	down	down	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	very	very	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
60	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	62	det:predet	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nsubj	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	_
66	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past · perfect · passive |  | King's comrade with the straw on King's back |  |  |  | behind King | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **shut** | past · passive |  | the door |  |  |  | upon walls *= wall* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **scatter** | past | King | the straw |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=Theme |
| 4 | **cool down** | participle | the hot walls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **become** | past | the hot walls |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **bear** | could | the Simpleton |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | the Simpleton *not said here* | a bath |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme |
| 8 | **freeze** | past | all water in the room |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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