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title: When she was up and had dressed herself, her husband lay down in her… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she was up and had dressed herself, her husband lay down in her place, saying: “You have given me a great deal of trouble, and now it is my turn!” Who acts: husband, You, deal. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 44

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When she was up and had dressed herself, her husband lay down in her place, saying: “You have given me a great deal of trouble, and now it is my turn!”

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**Who acts:** husband, You, deal · **What happens:** dress up, lie down, say, give, be, deal · **To what, where:** wife, place, great deal, husband, turn, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, You, deal), 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:pg2435:29:44
# text = When she was up and had dressed herself, her husband lay down in her place, saying: “You have given me a great deal of trouble, and now it is my turn!”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress up** | past · perfect · passive |  | wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie down** | past | wife's husband |  |  | wife's place |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | wife's husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | a great deal of trouble | wife's husband *= husband* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient deal=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | deal | my turn |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **deal** *in a quote* |  |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act 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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