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title: Now her gentle, courteous words and her uncomplaining ways touched K… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now her gentle, courteous words and her uncomplaining ways touched King Frost, and he had pity on her, and he wrapped her up in furs, and covered her with blankets, and he fetched a great box, in which were beautiful jewels and a rich robe embroidered in gold and silver. Who acts: gentle courteous w
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 27

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Now her gentle, courteous words and her uncomplaining ways touched King Frost, and he had pity on her, and he wrapped her up in furs, and covered her with blankets, and he fetched a great box, in which were beautiful jewels and a rich robe embroidered in gold and silver.

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**Who acts:** gentle courteous words, frost, girl · **What happens:** touch, have, wrap up, cover, fetch, be · **To what, where:** King Frost, pity, girl, furs, great box, beautiful jewels

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentle courteous words, frost, 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:pg640:37:27
# text = Now her gentle, courteous words and her uncomplaining ways touched King Frost, and he had pity on her, and he wrapped her up in furs, and covered her with blankets, and he fetched a great box, in which were beautiful jewels and a rich robe embroidered in gold and silver.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	uncomplaining	uncomplaining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
52	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | girl's gentle courteous words and girl's uncomplaining ways | King Frost |  |  | now |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frost=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | frost | pity |  |  |  | on girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 3 | **wrap up** | past | frost | girl |  | furs |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in fur=Destination |
| 4 | **cover** | past | girl's gentle courteous words and girl's uncomplaining ways *not said here* |  | girl |  |  | with blankets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with blanket=Theme |
| 5 | **fetch** | past | frost | a great box |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | beautiful jewels and a rich robe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **embroider** | participle |  | a rich robe *not said here* |  | gold and silver |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in gold=Destination |
| 8 | **word** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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