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title: She was laid upon a couch covered with cloth of gold, embroidered wi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was laid upon a couch covered with cloth of gold, embroidered with pearls as big as nuts.” A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 38

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She was laid upon a couch covered with cloth of gold, embroidered with pearls as big as nuts.”

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**What happens:** lay, cover, embroider · **To what, where:** Fairy, couch

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. 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:pg503:7:38
# text = She was laid upon a couch covered with cloth of gold, embroidered with pearls as big as nuts.”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past · passive |  | Fairy |  | a couch |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon couch=Destination |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | a couch *not said here* |  |  |  | with cloth of gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme |
| 3 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with pearls | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |

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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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