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title: So she went home, but alas! she said MORE THAN THREE WORDS; and imme… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she went home, but alas! she said MORE THAN THREE WORDS; and immediately the iron stove vanished and went away over a mountain of glass and sharp swords. Who acts: princess, alas, iron stove. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7), with its dependency tree and the
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 41

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So she went home, but alas! she said MORE THAN THREE WORDS; and immediately the iron stove vanished and went away over a mountain of glass and sharp swords.

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**Who acts:** princess, alas, iron stove · **What happens:** go, say, vanish, go away · **To what, where:** THREE WORDS, mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, alas, iron stove), 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:pg640:8:41
# text = So she went home, but alas! she said MORE THAN THREE WORDS; and immediately the iron stove vanished and went away over a mountain of glass and sharp swords.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	MORE	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	13	advmod	_	_
12	THAN	than	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	fixed	_	_
13	THREE	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	WORDS	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | alas | THREE WORDS |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **vanish** | past | the iron stove |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go away** | past | the iron stove *not said here* |  |  | a mountain of glass and sharp swords |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial\_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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