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title: It had pillows of silk, and curtains of silk fringed with gold, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It had pillows of silk, and curtains of silk fringed with gold, and everything that was in the room was of gold or silver, but when she had lain down and put out the light a man came and lay down beside her, and behold it was the White Bear, who cast off the form of a beast during the night. Who act
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 22

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It had pillows of silk, and curtains of silk fringed with gold, and everything that was in the room was of gold or silver, but when she had lain down and put out the light a man came and lay down beside her, and behold it was the White Bear, who cast off the form of a beast during the night.

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**Who acts:** bed, curtains, man, White Bear · **What happens:** have, fringe, be, lie down, put out, come · **To what, where:** pillows, room, door, light, White Bear, form

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, curtains, man, White Bear), 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:pg503:4:22
# text = It had pillows of silk, and curtains of silk fringed with gold, and everything that was in the room was of gold or silver, but when she had lain down and put out the light a man came and lay down beside her, and behold it was the White Bear, who cast off the form of a beast during the night.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pillows	pillow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
44	down	down	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
49	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	54	discourse	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
57	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	_
58	off	off	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	_
64	during	during	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | bed | pillows of silk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=Patient |
| 2 | **fringe** | participle | curtains of silk |  |  |  |  | with gold | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the room and gold or silver |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of gold or silver | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie down** | past · perfect · passive |  | door |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put out** | participle |  | the light |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Goal |
| 7 | **come** | past | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **lay down** | infinitive | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside door; down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside she=Destination |
| 9 | **is a** | past | bed | the White Bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **cast off** | past | the White Bear | the form of a beast |  |  | night |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Product |
| 11 | **form** |  |  | a beast |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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