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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 42

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Indeed, he felt that he really could not carry the bundle any further, and was about to lay it down when up came a young maiden more beautiful than the day, and covered with precious stones.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** feel, not carry, be, lay down, come, cover · **To what, where:** bundle, young maiden

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg5615:30:42
# text = Indeed, he felt that he really could not carry the bundle any further, and was about to lay it down when up came a young maiden more beautiful than the day, and covered with precious stones.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	any	any	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | king |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **carry** | could | king | the bundle |  |  |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay down** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | bundle |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |
| 5 | **come** | past | king *not said here* | a young maiden |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme |
| 6 | **cover** | participle | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with precious stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=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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