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title: She was lying in a splendid room furnished with royal splendour; the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was lying in a splendid room furnished with royal splendour; the walls were covered with golden flowers on a green ground; the bed was of ivory and the counterpane of velvet, and on a stool near by lay a pair of slippers studded with pearls. Who acts: maiden, bed. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy B
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 40

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She was lying in a splendid room furnished with royal splendour; the walls were covered with golden flowers on a green ground; the bed was of ivory and the counterpane of velvet, and on a stool near by lay a pair of slippers studded with pearls.

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**Who acts:** maiden, bed · **What happens:** lie, furnish, cover, be, lay, stud · **To what, where:** splendid room, walls, green ground, pair, slippers

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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, bed), 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:pg5615:3:40
# text = She was lying in a splendid room furnished with royal splendour; the walls were covered with golden flowers on a green ground; the bed was of ivory and the counterpane of velvet, and on a stool near by lay a pair of slippers studded with pearls.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	counterpane	counterpane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
40	near	near	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	lay	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
47	studded	stud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past · progressive | maiden |  |  | a splendid room |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **furnish** | participle |  | a splendid room *not said here* |  |  |  | with royal splendour | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with splendour=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the walls |  | a green ground |  | with golden flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the bed |  |  |  |  | of ivory and the counterpane of velvet | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay** | gerund | maiden *not said here* | a pair of slippers |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Result |
| 6 | **stud** | participle |  | slippers *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=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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