--- title: He was carried home in a dying condition, and as he lay on his death… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He was carried home in a dying condition, and as he lay on his death-bed the black woman appeared and said: ‘So the Sun has, after all, found someone, who was not under the Fairy’s spell, who has caused your death. Who acts: Prince, black woman, Sun, spell. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, black woman, Sun, spell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:38:41 # text = He was carried home in a dying condition, and as he lay on his death-bed the black woman appeared and said: ‘So the Sun has, after all, found someone, who was not under the Fairy’s spell, who has caused your death. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 dying die VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 16 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 So so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 after after ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 41 under under ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’s 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 spell spell NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 49 nsubj _ _ 48 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 45 acl:relcl _ _ 50 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past · passive | | Prince | | a dying condition | | home *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in condition=Location | | 2 | **die** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **lie** | past | Prince | | | Prince's death bed | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | | 4 | **appear** | past | the black woman | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the black woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** | present | the Sun | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **find** | past | the Sun *not said here* | someone | | | after all | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic | | 8 | **not** **is** | past | | | | the Fairy's spell | | | tree rules | | 9 | **cause** | present · perfect | the Fairy's spell | your death | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | | 10 | **die** | | your | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/42/) - ↑ back to [The Death of the Sun-hero (27)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/)