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title: If they brought the child anywhere near the fire, it screamed loudly… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If they brought the child anywhere near the fire, it screamed loudly till they put it back into some cool place. Who acts: icicles, fire. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 10

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If they brought the child anywhere near the fire, it screamed loudly till they put it back into some cool place.

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**Who acts:** icicles, fire · **What happens:** bring, scream, put back · **To what, where:** child, fire, cool place

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (icicles, 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:pg640:36:10
# text = If they brought the child anywhere near the fire, it screamed loudly till they put it back into some cool place.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | icicles *= icicle* |  | the child | the fire |  | anywhere *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | fire |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put back** | past | icicles *= icicle* | fire |  | some cool place |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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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