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title: Then the Fire-son, who had grown up in the meantime into a fine, str… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Fire-son, who had grown up in the meantime into a fine, strong young man, said to his sister, ‘I am going out into the world, for what is the use of remaining on here?’ Who acts: Fire son, I, use. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 25

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Then the Fire-son, who had grown up in the meantime into a fine, strong young man, said to his sister, ‘I am going out into the world, for what is the use of remaining on here?’

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**Who acts:** Fire son, I, use · **What happens:** grow up, say, go out, be, remain · **To what, where:** meantime, sister, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fire son, I, use), 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:pg640:36:25
# text = Then the Fire-son, who had grown up in the meantime into a fine, strong young man, said to his sister, ‘I am going out into the world, for what is the use of remaining on here?’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	40	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
41	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	acl	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | past · perfect | the Fire son |  |  | the meantime |  | into a fine strong young man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fire son |  | son's sister |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go out** | present · progressive | I |  |  | the world |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for the use | tree rules |
| 5 | **remain** | gerund | the use *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on here=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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