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title: They looked at each other, they looked at their beds, which were of… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They looked at each other, they looked at their beds, which were of the finest flax covered over with leaves and moss. Who acts: girls, beds. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 5

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They looked at each other, they looked at their beds, which were of the finest flax covered over with leaves and moss.

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**Who acts:** girls, beds · **What happens:** look, be, cover over · **To what, where:** finest flax

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (girls, beds), 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:pg3454:25:5
# text = They looked at each other, they looked at their beds, which were of the finest flax covered over with leaves and moss.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obl	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	over	over	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  | at girls's beds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bed=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | girls's beds |  |  |  |  | of the finest flax | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover over** | participle |  | the finest flax *not said here* |  |  |  | with leaves and moss; over *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leaf=Theme |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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