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title: And there beside him stood the old, white-bearded, figure of Death. — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And there beside him stood the old, white-bearded, figure of Death. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 85

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And there beside him stood the old, white-bearded, figure of Death.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** stand, figure · **To what, where:** old bearded figure, Death

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (prince), 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:pg2435:19:85
# text = And there beside him stood the old, white-bearded, figure of Death.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
3	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | prince | the old bearded figure of Death |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
| 2 | **figure** |  |  | Death |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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