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title: Side by side against the wall there were seven little beds, covered… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Side by side against the wall there were seven little beds, covered with snow-white counterpanes. Who acts: seven little beds. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 135

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Side by side against the wall there were seven little beds, covered with snow-white counterpanes.

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**Who acts:** seven little beds · **What happens:** be, cover · **To what, where:** Side, wall, seven little beds

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven little beds), 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:pg540:47:135
# text = Side by side against the wall there were seven little beds, covered with snow-white counterpanes.
1	Side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	counterpanes	counterpane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | seven little beds | Side by side |  | the wall; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Location |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | seven little beds *not said here* |  |  |  | with white counterpanes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with counterpane=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 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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