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title: ‘Out on thee, ugly Bushy Bride, Sleeping so soft by the young King’s… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Out on thee, ugly Bushy Bride, Sleeping so soft by the young King’s side, On sand and stones my bed I make, And my brother sleeps with the cold snake, Unpitied and unwept.’ Who acts: ugly Bushy Bride, I, brother. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 79

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‘Out on thee, ugly Bushy Bride, Sleeping so soft by the young King’s side, On sand and stones my bed I make, And my brother sleeps with the cold snake, Unpitied and unwept.’

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**Who acts:** ugly Bushy Bride, I, brother · **What happens:** sleep, make · **To what, where:** sand, bed, ugly Bushy Bride

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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 (ugly Bushy Bride, I, brother), 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:pg540:47:79
# text = ‘Out on thee, ugly Bushy Bride, Sleeping so soft by the young King’s side, On sand and stones my bed I make, And my brother sleeps with the cold snake, Unpitied and unwept.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	On	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Unpitied	unpitied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	unwept	unwept	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | gerund | ugly Bushy Bride *not said here* |  |  | sand and stones |  | soft *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | I | my bed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | my brother | ugly Bushy Bride *not said here* |  |  |  | with the cold snake | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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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