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title: When he had got into the house, however, the worst yet remained to d… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had got into the house, however, the worst yet remained to do, for the coverlet was on the bed in which the witch lay and slept. Who acts: property, coverlet, witch. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 49

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When he had got into the house, however, the worst yet remained to do, for the coverlet was on the bed in which the witch lay and slept.

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**Who acts:** property, coverlet, witch · **What happens:** get, remain, do, be, lie, sleep · **To what, where:** house, worst, bed

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (property, coverlet, witch), 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:pg5615:29:49
# text = When he had got into the house, however, the worst yet remained to do, for the coverlet was on the bed in which the witch lay and slept.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	however	however	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | property |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into house=Destination |
| 2 | **remain** | participle · passive |  | the worst |  |  | yet | however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the coverlet |  |  |  |  | for the bed | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | past | the witch |  |  | the bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
| 6 | **sleep** | past | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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