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title: Then they placed her on a bier, and all the seven Dwarfs sat round i… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they placed her on a bier, and all the seven Dwarfs sat round it, weeping and sobbing for three whole days. Who acts: dwarfs, seven Dwarfs. 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 253

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Then they placed her on a bier, and all the seven Dwarfs sat round it, weeping and sobbing for three whole days.

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**Who acts:** dwarfs, seven Dwarfs · **What happens:** place, sit, weep, sob · **To what, where:** SNOWDROP, bier

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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 (dwarfs, seven Dwarfs), 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:pg540:47:253
# text = Then they placed her on a bier, and all the seven Dwarfs sat round it, weeping and sobbing for three whole days.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bier	bier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | SNOWDROP |  | a bier | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on bier=Destination |
| 2 | **sit** | past | all seven Dwarfs |  |  |  |  | round bier | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund | all seven Dwarfs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sob** | gerund | all seven Dwarfs *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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