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title: Then feeling tired and sleepy she lay down on one of the beds, but i… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then feeling tired and sleepy she lay down on one of the beds, but it wasn’t comfortable; then she tried all the others in turn, but one was too long, and another too short, and it was only when she got to the seventh that she found one to suit her exactly. Who acts: SNOWDROP, bed, one, another. A s
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 137

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Then feeling tired and sleepy she lay down on one of the beds, but it wasn’t comfortable; then she tried all the others in turn, but one was too long, and another too short, and it was only when she got to the seventh that she found one to suit her exactly.

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**Who acts:** SNOWDROP, bed, one, another · **What happens:** feel, lie down, not be, try, be, find · **To what, where:** others, turn, one, SNOWDROP

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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 (SNOWDROP, bed, one, another), 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:pg540:47:137
# text = Then feeling tired and sleepy she lay down on one of the beds, but it wasn’t comfortable; then she tried all the others in turn, but one was too long, and another too short, and it was only when she got to the seventh that she found one to suit her exactly.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	39	nsubj	_	_
38	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
44	only	only	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	seventh	seventh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
54	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	obj	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
57	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund | SNOWDROP *not said here* |  |  |  | then | tired *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie down** | past | SNOWDROP |  |  |  |  | on one of the beds; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | bed |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** | past | SNOWDROP | all others |  | turn | then |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | past | one |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | another |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | bed |  |  |  |  | to the seventh; get *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **find** | past | SNOWDROP | one |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent one=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 9 | **suit** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | SNOWDROP |  |  |  | exactly *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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