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title: How long she lay there by the grave and wept one cannot tell, but su… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How long she lay there by the grave and wept one cannot tell, but sure it is that she fell asleep and slept until the sun rose. Who acts: girl, one, grave, sun. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 12

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How long she lay there by the grave and wept one cannot tell, but sure it is that she fell asleep and slept until the sun rose.

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**Who acts:** girl, one, grave, sun · **What happens:** lie, weep, not tell, be, fall, sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, one, grave, sun), 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:pg5615:33:12
# text = How long she lay there by the grave and wept one cannot tell, but sure it is that she fell asleep and slept until the sun rose.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | girl |  |  | there |  | by the grave; long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location |
| 2 | **weep** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** | present | grave |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sleep** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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