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title: Toward mid-day the gardener’s son arranged the bones in their places… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Toward mid-day the gardener’s son arranged the bones in their places, and he had hardly scattered the ashes over them before the old King revived, to find himself once more young and hearty. Who acts: mid-day son, old King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with it
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 67

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Toward mid-day the gardener’s son arranged the bones in their places, and he had hardly scattered the ashes over them before the old King revived, to find himself once more young and hearty.

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**Who acts:** mid-day son, old King · **What happens:** arrange, scatter, revive, find · **To what, where:** bones, places, son, king

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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 (mid-day son, old King), 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:pg503:2:67
# text = Toward mid-day the gardener’s son arranged the bones in their places, and he had hardly scattered the ashes over them before the old King revived, to find himself once more young and hearty.
1	Toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	revived	revive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	33	advmod	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	hearty	hearty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | past | the gardener's mid-day son | the bones |  | bones's places |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in place=Destination |
| 2 | **scatter** | past · perfect · passive |  | son |  |  |  | over bones *= bone*; hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **revive** | past | the old King |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | the old King *not said here* | king |  |  |  | young *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |

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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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