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title: The Fire-son was delighted, but the perpetual heat in which he lived… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fire-son was delighted, but the perpetual heat in which he lived made his body so hot, that it was dangerous to go too close to him. Who acts: Fire son, heat, perpetual heat, it. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), with its dependency tre
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 41

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The Fire-son was delighted, but the perpetual heat in which he lived made his body so hot, that it was dangerous to go too close to him.

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**Who acts:** Fire son, heat, perpetual heat, it · **What happens:** be, live, make, go · **To what, where:** perpetual heat, body

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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, heat, perpetual heat, it), 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:pg640:36:41
# text = The Fire-son was delighted, but the perpetual heat in which he lived made his body so hot, that it was dangerous to go too close to him.
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	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	perpetual	perpetual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	csubj	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Fire son |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | heat |  |  | the perpetual heat |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **make** | past | the perpetual heat | heat's body |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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