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title: Farther and farther down the sides the snow-mantle unfolded until it… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Farther and farther down the sides the snow-mantle unfolded until it dropped on the very fountains of fire. Who acts: snow mantle. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 77

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Farther and farther down the sides the snow-mantle unfolded until it dropped on the very fountains of fire.

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**Who acts:** snow mantle · **What happens:** unfold, drop · **To what, where:** snow mantle, fountains

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow mantle), 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:pg66516:12:77
# text = Farther and farther down the sides the snow-mantle unfolded until it dropped on the very fountains of fire.
1	Farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	unfolded	unfold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	until	until	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **unfold** | participle |  | the snow mantle *not said here* |  |  | until snow |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **drop** | past | the snow mantle |  |  | the fountains of fire |  | down the sides; far *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent down side=Destination on fountain=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:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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