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title: I love heat and my sister loves cold--come here and let me embrace y… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I love heat and my sister loves cold--come here and let me embrace you, and then I’ll go home at once.’ Who acts: I, sister, me. 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 46

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I love heat and my sister loves cold--come here and let me embrace you, and then I’ll go home at once.’

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**Who acts:** I, sister, me · **What happens:** love, come, let, embrace, go · **To what, where:** heat, me, you

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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 (I, sister, me), 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:pg640:36:46
# text = I love heat and my sister loves cold--come here and let me embrace you, and then I’ll go home at once.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
23	home	home	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | I | heat |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **love** | present | my sister |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **embrace** | infinitive | me *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  | then | home *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

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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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