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title: The Fire-son built himself a hut where he always kept up a huge fire… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fire-son built himself a hut where he always kept up a huge fire, while his sister with very few clothes on stayed outside night and day. Who acts: Fire son, son, sister. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), with its dependency tree and th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 33

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The Fire-son built himself a hut where he always kept up a huge fire, while his sister with very few clothes on stayed outside night and day.

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**Who acts:** Fire son, son, sister · **What happens:** build, keep up, stay · **To what, where:** son, huge fire

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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, son, sister), 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:pg640:36:33
# text = The Fire-son built himself a hut where he always kept up a huge fire, while his sister with very few clothes on stayed outside night and day.
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	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	nmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the Fire son | son |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary hut=Product |
| 2 | **keep up** | past | son | a huge fire |  |  |  | always *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | past | son's sister with few clothes |  |  |  | night | outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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