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title: In the middle of it, hung on a thick rod of gold, were two beds, sha… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of it, hung on a thick rod of gold, were two beds, shaped like lilies, one all white, in which lay the princess, and the other red, in which Gerda hoped to find Kay. Who acts: Gerda. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tr
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 138

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In the middle of it, hung on a thick rod of gold, were two beds, shaped like lilies, one all white, in which lay the princess, and the other red, in which Gerda hoped to find Kay.

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**Who acts:** Gerda · **What happens:** hang, be, shape, lie, hope, find · **To what, where:** middle, two beds, princess, Kay

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda), 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:pg5615:9:138
# text = In the middle of it, hung on a thick rod of gold, were two beds, shaped like lilies, one all white, in which lay the princess, and the other red, in which Gerda hoped to find Kay.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obl	_	_
40	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | participle |  |  |  | the middle of middle |  | on a thick rod of gold | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | two beds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shape** | participle |  | two beds *not said here* |  |  |  | like lilies | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **lie** | past |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme |
| 5 | **hope** | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Gerda *not said here* | Kay |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kay=Topic |

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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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