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title: A heap of corpses both of riders and horses lay round the mountain,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A heap of corpses both of riders and horses lay round the mountain, and many dying men lay groaning there unable to go any farther with their wounded limbs. Who acts: heap, many dying men. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 12

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A heap of corpses both of riders and horses lay round the mountain, and many dying men lay groaning there unable to go any farther with their wounded limbs.

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**Who acts:** heap, many dying men · **What happens:** lay, die, lie, groan, go

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (heap, many dying men), 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:pg640:22:12
# text = A heap of corpses both of riders and horses lay round the mountain, and many dying men lay groaning there unable to go any farther with their wounded limbs.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
20	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	any	any	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | a heap of corpses |  |  |  |  | round the mountain | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **lie** | past | many dying men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **groan** | gerund | many dying men *not said here* |  |  | there |  | unable *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | many dying men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with riders's wounded limbs; far *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with limb=Beneficiary |

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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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