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title: Then they put the coffin on the top of the mountain, and one of the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they put the coffin on the top of the mountain, and one of the Dwarfs always remained beside it and kept watch over it. Who acts: 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 257

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Then they put the coffin on the top of the mountain, and one of the Dwarfs always remained beside it and kept watch over it.

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**Who acts:** dwarfs · **What happens:** put, remain, keep · **To what, where:** coffin, top, Dwarfs, watch

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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), 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:pg540:47:257
# text = Then they put the coffin on the top of the mountain, and one of the Dwarfs always remained beside it and kept watch over it.
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	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
24	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | the coffin |  | the top of the mountain | then | one of the Dwarfs *obl* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme on top=Destination |
| 2 | **remain** | participle |  | the Dwarfs *not said here* |  | coffin |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Location |
| 3 | **keep** | participle |  | watch |  | coffin |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over it=Location |

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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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