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title: Desiree, in a flowing dress of green silk, was lying stretched out u… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Desiree, in a flowing dress of green silk, was lying stretched out upon cushions, and as Eglantine bent over her to bathe the wounded leg, she began to talk: Who acts: Eglantine. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 93

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Desiree, in a flowing dress of green silk, was lying stretched out upon cushions, and as Eglantine bent over her to bathe the wounded leg, she began to talk:

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**Who acts:** Eglantine · **What happens:** flow, stretch out, bend, bathe, begin, talk · **To what, where:** Desiree, wounded leg

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eglantine), 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:pg3027:24:93
# text = Desiree, in a flowing dress of green silk, was lying stretched out upon cushions, and as Eglantine bent over her to bathe the wounded leg, she began to talk:
1	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch out** | past · passive |  | Desiree |  |  |  | upon cushions | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **bend** | past | Eglantine |  |  |  |  | over Desiree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location |
| 4 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | Eglantine *not said here* | the wounded leg |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leg=Destination |
| 5 | **begin** | past | Eglantine |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **talk** | to-infinitive | Eglantine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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