--- title: The Fire-son said, ‘I love you with all my heart, but at the same ti… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Fire-son said, ‘I love you with all my heart, but at the same time I always freeze if you are near me, and you nearly die of heat if I approach you! Who acts: Fire son, I, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/) / 27 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 27 The Fire-son said, ‘I love you with all my heart, but at the same time I always freeze if you are near me, and you nearly die of heat if I approach you! **Who acts:** Fire son, I, you · **What happens:** say, love, freeze, be, die, approach · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:36:27 # text = The Fire-son said, ‘I love you with all my heart, but at the same time I always freeze if you are near me, and you nearly die of heat if I approach you! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Fire Fire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 23 advmod _ _ 23 freeze freeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 near near ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 approach approach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fire son | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **love** | present | I | you | | | | with my heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **freeze** | present | I | | | | time | always *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | near me | tree rules | | 5 | **die** | present | you | | | | | of heat; nearly *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of heat=Causer | | 6 | **approach** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | you | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/28/) - ↑ back to [The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/)