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title: Flames of fire rushed forth, and such clouds of steam followed that… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Flames of fire rushed forth, and such clouds of steam followed that the stag had to avert its eyes. Who acts: Flames, such clouds, stag, fire. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 27

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Flames of fire rushed forth, and such clouds of steam followed that the stag had to avert its eyes.

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**Who acts:** Flames, such clouds, stag, fire · **What happens:** rush, follow, have, avert, flame, cloud · **To what, where:** eyes, steam

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flames, such clouds, stag, fire), 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:pg7277:45:27
# text = Flames of fire rushed forth, and such clouds of steam followed that the stag had to avert its eyes.
1	Flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	avert	avert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | participle | Flames of fire |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | such clouds of steam |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the stag |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **avert** | to-infinitive | the stag *not said here* | stag's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **flame** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **cloud** |  |  | steam |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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