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title: “The thing which lay on the top of the bed” turned out to be the los… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The thing which lay on the top of the bed” turned out to be the lost princess. Who acts: thing. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 73

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“The thing which lay on the top of the bed” turned out to be the lost princess.

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**Who acts:** thing · **What happens:** lie, turn out, lose, be · **To what, where:** top, thing, lost princess

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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:pg2435:22:73
# text = “The thing which lay on the top of the bed” turned out to be the lost princess.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** *in a quote* | past | the thing |  |  | the top of the bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location |
| 2 | **turn out** | participle · passive |  | the thing |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the lost princess |  |  |  |  | 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 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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