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title: When the people, attracted by the noise, hurried to the spot, they s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the people, attracted by the noise, hurried to the spot, they saw the Snow-daughter melting into water and the Fire-son burn to a cinder. Who acts: noise, people, Snow daughter. 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 51

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When the people, attracted by the noise, hurried to the spot, they saw the Snow-daughter melting into water and the Fire-son burn to a cinder.

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**Who acts:** noise, people, Snow daughter · **What happens:** attract, hurry, see, melt · **To what, where:** people, noise, spot, Snow daughter, water

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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 (noise, people, Snow daughter), 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:pg640:36:51
# text = When the people, attracted by the noise, hurried to the spot, they saw the Snow-daughter melting into water and the Fire-son burn to a cinder.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	cinder	cinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | participle · passive | the noise | the people |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **hurry** | participle |  | the noise *not said here* |  | the spot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past | people | the Snow daughter |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
| 4 | **melt** | gerund | the Snow daughter *not said here* |  |  | water and the Fire son burn to a cinder |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into water=Product |

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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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