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title: And the porter approached the bed, which was in a corner of the room… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the porter approached the bed, which was in a corner of the room, and saw the stiff form lying underneath. Who acts: porter, bed, stiff form. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 126

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And the porter approached the bed, which was in a corner of the room, and saw the stiff form lying underneath.

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**Who acts:** porter, bed, stiff form · **What happens:** approach, be, see, lie · **To what, where:** bed, corner, stiff form

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter, bed, stiff form), 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:pg2435:28:126
# text = And the porter approached the bed, which was in a corner of the room, and saw the stiff form lying underneath.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | the porter | the bed and a corner |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the bed and a corner |  |  | a corner |  | of the room | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | the porter *not said here* | the stiff form |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | the stiff form *not said here* |  |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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