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title: But after a short time the woman gave birth to a little girl, who wa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But after a short time the woman gave birth to a little girl, who was as white as snow and as cold as ice. Who acts: woman, little girl. 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 9

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But after a short time the woman gave birth to a little girl, who was as white as snow and as cold as ice.

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**Who acts:** woman, little girl · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** birth, little girl

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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 (woman, little girl), 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:pg640:36:9
# text = But after a short time the woman gave birth to a little girl, who was as white as snow and as cold as ice.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the woman | birth | a little girl |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to girl=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | a little girl |  |  |  |  | as snow; white *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a little girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as ice | tree rules |

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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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