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title: The wicked old man lay down in bed and put the bronze ring into his… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wicked old man lay down in bed and put the bronze ring into his mouth, and very soon he was asleep. Who acts: wicked old man, man. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 196

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The wicked old man lay down in bed and put the bronze ring into his mouth, and very soon he was asleep.

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**Who acts:** wicked old man, man · **What happens:** lie down, put, be · **To what, where:** bed, bronze ring, mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked old man, man), 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:pg503:2:196
# text = The wicked old man lay down in bed and put the bronze ring into his mouth, and very soon he was asleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | past | the wicked old man |  |  | bed |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | the wicked old man *not said here* | the bronze ring |  | man's mouth |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ring=Goal |
| 3 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | asleep, soon *property* | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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