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title: For a long time the Fire-son and the Snow-daughter wandered through… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long time the Fire-son and the Snow-daughter wandered through the world, and when at the beginning of winter they came to a big wood they determined to stay there till spring. Who acts: Fire son, children. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 32

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For a long time the Fire-son and the Snow-daughter wandered through the world, and when at the beginning of winter they came to a big wood they determined to stay there till spring.

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**Who acts:** Fire son, children · **What happens:** wander, come, determine, stay, begin · **To what, where:** world, beginning, big wood, winter

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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, children), 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:pg640:36:32
# text = For a long time the Fire-son and the Snow-daughter wandered through the world, and when at the beginning of winter they came to a big wood they determined to stay there till spring.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
37	till	till	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | the Fire son and the Snow daughter |  |  | the world | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  | at the beginning of winter | to a big wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **determine** | past | children *= child* | a big wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  | there | spring |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** |  |  | winter |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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