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title: Then he called the others, who turned their little lamps full on the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he called the others, who turned their little lamps full on the bed, and when they saw Snowdrop lying there they nearly fell down with surprise. Who acts: seventh, others, Snowdrop. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 161

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Then he called the others, who turned their little lamps full on the bed, and when they saw Snowdrop lying there they nearly fell down with surprise.

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**Who acts:** seventh, others, Snowdrop · **What happens:** call, turn, see, lie, fall down · **To what, where:** others, little lamps, Snowdrop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (seventh, others, Snowdrop), 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:pg540:47:161
# text = Then he called the others, who turned their little lamps full on the bed, and when they saw Snowdrop lying there they nearly fell down with surprise.
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	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	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 | **call** | past | seventh | the others |  |  | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient |
| 2 | **turn** | past | the others | others's little lamps |  |  |  | full *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | others *= other* | Snowdrop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | Snowdrop *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall down** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | with surprise; down, nearly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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