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title: At last they made up their minds to bury her, but she looked as bloo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they made up their minds to bury her, but she looked as blooming as a living being, and her cheeks were still such a lovely colour, that they said: Who acts: last, SNOWDROP, cheeks, dwarfs. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 254

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At last they made up their minds to bury her, but she looked as blooming as a living being, and her cheeks were still such a lovely colour, that they said:

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**Who acts:** last, SNOWDROP, cheeks, dwarfs · **What happens:** make up, bury, look, bloom, be, say · **To what, where:** minds, SNOWDROP, lovely colour · **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 (last, SNOWDROP, cheeks, 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:pg540:47:254
# text = At last they made up their minds to bury her, but she looked as blooming as a living being, and her cheeks were still such a lovely colour, that they said:
1	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past | last | dwarfs's minds |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 2 | **bury** | to-infinitive | last *not said here* | SNOWDROP |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | SNOWDROP |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **bloom** | gerund · progressive | SNOWDROP *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a living | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | SNOWDROP's cheeks | such lovely colour |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mind** |  | dwarfs *= dwarf* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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