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title: She blew up the fire on which she was cooking something in a little… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She blew up the fire on which she was cooking something in a little pot, and her daughter secretly warned the travellers to be very careful not to eat or drink anything, as the old woman’s brews were apt to be dangerous. Who acts: woman, daughter, brews. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andre
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 13

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She blew up the fire on which she was cooking something in a little pot, and her daughter secretly warned the travellers to be very careful not to eat or drink anything, as the old woman’s brews were apt to be dangerous.

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**Who acts:** woman, daughter, brews · **What happens:** blow up, cook, warn, be, not eat, drink · **To what, where:** fire, something, travellers, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, daughter, brews), 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:pg7277:47:13
# text = She blew up the fire on which she was cooking something in a little pot, and her daughter secretly warned the travellers to be very careful not to eat or drink anything, as the old woman’s brews were apt to be dangerous.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	brews	brew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	apt	apt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
45	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow up** | past | woman | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
| 2 | **cook** | past · progressive |  | something |  |  |  | in a little pot | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent something=Patient in pot=Instrument |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | woman's daughter | the travellers |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent traveller=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **drink** | infinitive |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | the old woman's brews |  |  |  |  | apt *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | the old woman's brews *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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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