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title: Then he swept them all back into their bags, and leaning back in his… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he swept them all back into their bags, and leaning back in his chair fell fast asleep, snoring so loud that no other sound was audible. Who acts: leave, leaning, other sound. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 20

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Then he swept them all back into their bags, and leaning back in his chair fell fast asleep, snoring so loud that no other sound was audible.

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**Who acts:** leave, leaning, other sound · **What happens:** sweep, lean back, fall, snore, be · **To what, where:** heaps, bags, chair

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leave, leaning, other sound), 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:pg540:18:20
# text = Then he swept them all back into their bags, and leaning back in his chair fell fast asleep, snoring so loud that no other sound was audible.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	audible	audible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | past | leave | heaps *= heap* |  | heaps's bags | then |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into bag=Destination |
| 2 | **lean back** | gerund |  |  |  | leave's chair |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location |
| 3 | **fall** | past | leaning |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **snore** | gerund | leaning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | no other sound |  |  |  |  | audible *property* | tree rules |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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