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title: She plaited a bed for herself of blades of grass, and hung it up und… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She plaited a bed for herself of blades of grass, and hung it up under a clover-leaf, so that she was protected from the rain; she gathered honey from the flowers for food, and drank the dew on the leaves every morning. Who acts: THUMBELINA. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 124

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She plaited a bed for herself of blades of grass, and hung it up under a clover-leaf, so that she was protected from the rain; she gathered honey from the flowers for food, and drank the dew on the leaves every morning.

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**Who acts:** THUMBELINA · **What happens:** plait, hang up, protect, gather, drink · **To what, where:** bed, clover leaf, THUMBELINA, honey, flowers, dew

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (THUMBELINA), 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:pg640:47:124
# text = She plaited a bed for herself of blades of grass, and hung it up under a clover-leaf, so that she was protected from the rain; she gathered honey from the flowers for food, and drank the dew on the leaves every morning.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plaited	plait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	clover	clover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
47	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
48	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plait** | past | THUMBELINA | a bed |  |  |  | for blades of grass | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
| 2 | **hang up** | past |  | bed |  | a clover leaf |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under leaf=Destination |
| 3 | **protect** | past · passive |  | THUMBELINA |  |  |  | from the rain | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from rain=Theme |
| 4 | **gather** | past | THUMBELINA | honey |  | the flowers for food |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent honey=Theme from flower=Source |
| 5 | **drink** | past |  | the dew |  | the leaves | morning |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dew=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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