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title: He had, however, put a horse’s skull which was lying on the ground,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had, however, put a horse’s skull which was lying on the ground, for his pillow, so that he should not be too comfortable and might soon wake up. Who acts: wind, skull. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 33

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He had, however, put a horse’s skull which was lying on the ground, for his pillow, so that he should not be too comfortable and might soon wake up.

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**Who acts:** wind, skull · **What happens:** have, put, lie, not be, wake up · **To what, where:** skull, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, skull), 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:pg640:19:33
# text = He had, however, put a horse’s skull which was lying on the ground, for his pillow, so that he should not be too comfortable and might soon wake up.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | wind *not said here* | a horse's skull |  |  |  | however *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent skull=Goal |
| 3 | **lie** | past · progressive | a horse's skull |  |  | the ground |  | for wind's pillow | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
| 4 | **not** **is** | should | wind |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wake up** | might | wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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