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title: Nothing was left of either of them except their bones, which rattled… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing was left of either of them except their bones, which rattled in the battered golden armour like dry peas in a pod. Who acts: bones. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 19

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Nothing was left of either of them except their bones, which rattled in the battered golden armour like dry peas in a pod.

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**Who acts:** bones · **What happens:** leave, rattle, batter · **To what, where:** Nothing, battered golden armour

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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 (bones), 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:pg640:22:19
# text = Nothing was left of either of them except their bones, which rattled in the battered golden armour like dry peas in a pod.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pod	pod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Nothing |  |  |  | of either; except riders's bones | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of either=Destination |
| 2 | **rattle** | past | riders's bones |  |  | the battered golden armour like dry peas in a pod |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in armour=Location |
| 3 | **batter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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