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title: Place the pan on the floor of the stall, and the tongs on the fire,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Place the pan on the floor of the stall, and the tongs on the fire, and blow with all your might, till the coals burn brightly. Who acts: you, tongs, coals. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 36

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Place the pan on the floor of the stall, and the tongs on the fire, and blow with all your might, till the coals burn brightly.

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**Who acts:** you, tongs, coals · **What happens:** place, blow, burn · **To what, where:** pan, floor

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tongs, coals), 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:pg641:10:36
# text = Place the pan on the floor of the stall, and the tongs on the fire, and blow with all your might, till the coals burn brightly.
1	Place	place	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
29	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | imperative | you *not said here* | the pan |  | the floor of the stall |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme on floor=Destination |
| 2 | **blow** | infinitive | the tongs on the fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **burn** | present | the coals |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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