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title: And there, laid out on the marble floor of the court, dead and stone… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And there, laid out on the marble floor of the court, dead and stone cold, were her three children. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 43

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And there, laid out on the marble floor of the court, dead and stone cold, were her three children.

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**What happens:** lay out, be · **To what, where:** marble floor, Duck

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:29:43
# text = And there, laid out on the marble floor of the court, dead and stone cold, were her three children.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay out** | participle |  |  |  | the marble floor of the court and stone; there |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Duck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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