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title: The maiden therefore went upstairs, made the bed and put on clean sh… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden therefore went upstairs, made the bed and put on clean sheets and fell asleep. Who acts: maiden. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 35

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The maiden therefore went upstairs, made the bed and put on clean sheets and fell asleep.

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**Who acts:** maiden · **What happens:** go, make, put, fall · **To what, where:** bed, clean sheets

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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:pg5615:3:35
# text = The maiden therefore went upstairs, made the bed and put on clean sheets and fell asleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the maiden |  |  |  |  | therefore, upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the maiden *not said here* | the bed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product |
| 3 | **put** | participle | the maiden *not said here* |  |  | clean sheets |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on sheet=Destination |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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