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title: And if she was cold she crept under his warm feathers, only keeping… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And if she was cold she crept under his warm feathers, only keeping her little head out to admire all the beautiful things in the world beneath. Who acts: snow. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 226

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And if she was cold she crept under his warm feathers, only keeping her little head out to admire all the beautiful things in the world beneath.

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**Who acts:** snow · **What happens:** be, creep, keep, admire · **To what, where:** warm feathers, little head, beautiful things, world

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow), 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:pg640:47:226
# text = And if she was cold she crept under his warm feathers, only keeping her little head out to admire all the beautiful things in the world beneath.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | snow |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep** | past | snow |  |  | mole's warm feathers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under feather=Trajectory |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund | snow *not said here* | snow's little head |  |  |  | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 4 | **admire** | to-infinitive | snow *not said here* | all beautiful things |  | the world |  | beneath *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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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