--- title: Her husband was lying sleeping off the effects of a drinking bout, s… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Her husband was lying sleeping off the effects of a drinking bout, so she pulled off all his clothes and made him black as coal from head to foot, and then let him sleep till far on in the day. Who acts: husband, Death, carpenter. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/67/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/) / 67 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 67 Her husband was lying sleeping off the effects of a drinking bout, so she pulled off all his clothes and made him black as coal from head to foot, and then let him sleep till far on in the day. **Who acts:** husband, Death, carpenter · **What happens:** lie, sleep off, drink, pull off, make, let · **To what, where:** effects, clothes, black coal, carpenter, head, drinking bout This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, Death, carpenter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:32:67 # text = Her husband was lying sleeping off the effects of a drinking bout, so she pulled off all his clothes and made him black as coal from head to foot, and then let him sleep till far on in the day. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 xcomp _ _ 6 off off ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 effects effect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ _ 12 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 20 det:predet _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 16 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 34 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 till till ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past · progressive | Death's husband | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sleep off** | gerund | Death's husband *not said here* | the effects of a drinking bout | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme | | 3 | **drink** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pull off** | past | Death | carpenter's clothes | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Eventuality | | 5 | **make** | past | Death *not said here* | black coal | carpenter | head | | to foot | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP PP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary coal=Product from head=Material | | 6 | **let** | infinitive | Death's husband *not said here* | carpenter | | | then | | tree rules | | 7 | **sleep** | infinitive | carpenter *not said here* | | | | day | far *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **effect** | | | a drinking bout | | | | | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/68/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/)