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title: But for his brother-in-law he had a house built with huge ovens all… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But for his brother-in-law he had a house built with huge ovens all round it, that were kept heated all day and night. Who acts: King, house. 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 40

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But for his brother-in-law he had a house built with huge ovens all round it, that were kept heated all day and night.

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**Who acts:** King, house · **What happens:** have, build, keep, heat · **To what, where:** house

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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 (King, house), 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:pg640:36:40
# text = But for his brother-in-law he had a house built with huge ovens all round it, that were kept heated all day and night.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ovens	oven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	round	round	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
24	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | King | a house |  |  |  | for law | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | a house *not said here* |  |  |  | with huge ovens; round house | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with oven=Source |
| 3 | **keep** | past · passive |  | a house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **heat** | participle | a house *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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