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title: Then arrange the bones in their proper places, and throw over them t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then arrange the bones in their proper places, and throw over them the ashes out of the three bags. Who acts: you. 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 56

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Then arrange the bones in their proper places, and throw over them the ashes out of the three bags.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** arrange, throw · **To what, where:** bones, proper places, ashes, three bags

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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 (you), 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:pg503:2:56
# text = Then arrange the bones in their proper places, and throw over them the ashes out of the three bags.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | imperative | you *not said here* | the bones |  | bones's proper places | then |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in place=Destination |
| 2 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the ashes |  | the three bags |  | over bones *= bone* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ash=Theme over they=Destination |

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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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