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title: But all along the road there are huge fires, and I dread lest you sh… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But all along the road there are huge fires, and I dread lest you should stop and warm yourself at them.’ Who acts: huge fires, I, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 98

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But all along the road there are huge fires, and I dread lest you should stop and warm yourself at them.’

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**Who acts:** huge fires, I, you · **What happens:** be, dread, stop, warm · **To what, where:** road, yourself

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (huge fires, I, you), 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:pg641:20:98
# text = But all along the road there are huge fires, and I dread lest you should stop and warm yourself at them.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	along	along	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dread	dread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | huge fires |  |  | the road; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Location |
| 2 | **dread** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **stop** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **warm** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  | at fires *= fire* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |

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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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