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title: Cold and pale lay the Emperor in his splendid great bed; the whole C… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Cold and pale lay the Emperor in his splendid great bed; the whole Court believed him dead, and one after the other left him to pay their respects to the new Emperor. Who acts: Cold, whole Court, one, Emperor. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 148

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Cold and pale lay the Emperor in his splendid great bed; the whole Court believed him dead, and one after the other left him to pay their respects to the new Emperor.

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**Who acts:** Cold, whole Court, one, Emperor · **What happens:** lay, believe, leave, pay · **To what, where:** Emperor, splendid great bed, respects

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cold, whole Court, one, Emperor), 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:pg640:48:148
# text = Cold and pale lay the Emperor in his splendid great bed; the whole Court believed him dead, and one after the other left him to pay their respects to the new Emperor.
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nsubj	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	respects	respects	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | Cold | the Emperor |  | Emperor's splendid great bed |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme in bed=Destination |
| 2 | **believe** | past | the whole Court | Emperor |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **leave** | past | one after the other | Emperor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Emperor *not said here* | people's respects |  |  |  | to the new Emperor | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset |

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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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