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title: “My husband is dead,” answered she, pointing to the bed; and the cha… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “My husband is dead,” answered she, pointing to the bed; and the chamberlain drew back the sheet and beheld Abu Nowas lying stiff and motionless. Who acts: husband, chamberlain. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 7

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“My husband is dead,” answered she, pointing to the bed; and the chamberlain drew back the sheet and beheld Abu Nowas lying stiff and motionless.

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**Who acts:** husband, chamberlain · **What happens:** be, answer, point, draw back, behold, lie · **To what, where:** wife, bed, sheet, Abu · **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, chamberlain), 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:pg2435:29:7
# text = “My husband is dead,” answered she, pointing to the bed; and the chamberlain drew back the sheet and beheld Abu Nowas lying stiff and motionless.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	Abu	Abu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | My husband |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | wife |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 3 | **point** | gerund |  |  | the bed |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bed=Recipient |
| 4 | **draw back** | past | the chamberlain | the sheet |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme |
| 5 | **behold** | past | the chamberlain *not said here* | Abu |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer abu=Stimulus |
| 6 | **lie** | gerund | the chamberlain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stiff *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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