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title: On the floor lay seven lindorm skins and six snow-white shirts, and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the floor lay seven lindorm skins and six snow-white shirts, and beside these three worn-out scrubbing brushes, while in the bed a beautiful youth was lying asleep beside the fair young maiden. Who acts: these, worn out, beautiful youth. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pin
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 36

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On the floor lay seven lindorm skins and six snow-white shirts, and beside these three worn-out scrubbing brushes, while in the bed a beautiful youth was lying asleep beside the fair young maiden.

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**Who acts:** these, worn out, beautiful youth · **What happens:** lie, out, scrub · **To what, where:** seven lindorm skins, floor, brushes, bed

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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 (these, worn out, beautiful youth), 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:pg5615:33:36
# text = On the floor lay seven lindorm skins and six snow-white shirts, and beside these three worn-out scrubbing brushes, while in the bed a beautiful youth was lying asleep beside the fair young maiden.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
10	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
19	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
22	scrubbing	scrub	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
34	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	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 | **lie** | past |  | seven lindorm skins and six white shirts |  | the floor |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Theme |
| 2 | **out** |  | these |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scrub** | gerund | worn out *not said here* | brushes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brush=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | past · progressive | a beautiful youth |  |  | the bed |  | beside the fair young maiden; asleep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |

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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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