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title: Without waking her husband, she glided out of bed, and taking up a h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Without waking her husband, she glided out of bed, and taking up a heavy bowl of milk which stood on a table, laid it on the floor in the path of the serpent—for she knew that no serpent in the world can resist milk. Who acts: princess, heavy bowl, serpent. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by An
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 78

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Without waking her husband, she glided out of bed, and taking up a heavy bowl of milk which stood on a table, laid it on the floor in the path of the serpent—for she knew that no serpent in the world can resist milk.

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**Who acts:** princess, heavy bowl, serpent · **What happens:** wake, glide, take up, stand, lay, know · **To what, where:** husband, bed, heavy bowl, table, bowl, floor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, heavy bowl, serpent), 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:pg3282:25:78
# text = Without waking her husband, she glided out of bed, and taking up a heavy bowl of milk which stood on a table, laid it on the floor in the path of the serpent—for she knew that no serpent in the world can resist milk.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
43	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	ccomp	_	_
49	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **wake** | gerund | princess *not said here* | princess's husband |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
| 2 | **glide** | past | princess |  |  | bed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bed=Trajectory |
| 3 | **take up** | gerund | princess *not said here* | a heavy bowl of milk |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | a heavy bowl of milk |  |  | a table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |
| 5 | **lay** | past | princess *not said here* | bowl |  | the floor |  | in the path of the serpent | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on floor=Destination |
| 6 | **know** | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **resist** | can | no serpent in the world | milk |  |  |  |  | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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