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title: They had been put to bed early, with every one a crown of gold upon… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had been put to bed early, with every one a crown of gold upon her head. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 93

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They had been put to bed early, with every one a crown of gold upon her head.

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**What happens:** put, crown · **To what, where:** ogresses, gold

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg503:33:93
# text = They had been put to bed early, with every one a crown of gold upon her head.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · perfect · passive |  | ogresses *= ogress* |  |  |  | to bed; a one crown of gold upon calf's head *obl*; early *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **crown** |  |  | gold |  |  |  | upon calf's head | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient upon=obl |

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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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