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title: Now the Fire King lived at the South Pole, where all was snow and ic… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Fire King lived at the South Pole, where all was snow and ice, for he burned up everything else around him. Who acts: Fire King, king. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 111

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Now the Fire King lived at the South Pole, where all was snow and ice, for he burned up everything else around him.

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**Who acts:** Fire King, king · **What happens:** live, be, burn up · **To what, where:** South Pole, snow, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fire King, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:19:112
# text = Now the Fire King lived at the South Pole, where all was snow and ice, for he burned up everything else around him.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
23	else	else	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	around	around	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the Fire King |  |  | the South Pole | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pole=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | all snow and ice |  |  |  | ice *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn up** | past | king | everything |  |  |  | around snow | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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