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title: When they were left alone in the bridal chamber the lindorm, in a th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were left alone in the bridal chamber the lindorm, in a threatening voice, ordered her to undress herself. 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 clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 20

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When they were left alone in the bridal chamber the lindorm, in a threatening voice, ordered her to undress herself.

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**What happens:** leave, order, undress · **To what, where:** maidens, bridal chamber, lindorm, threatening voice

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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: 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:pg5615:33:20
# text = When they were left alone in the bridal chamber the lindorm, in a threatening voice, ordered her to undress herself.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	threatening	threatening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	undress	undress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | maidens *= maiden* |  | the bridal chamber |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in chamber=Location |
| 2 | **order** | past |  |  | lindorm | a threatening voice |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **undress** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | lindorm |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |

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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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