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title: So Petru bade her good-night, put the flute in its case, and laid hi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Petru bade her good-night, put the flute in its case, and laid himself down in the lowest chamber to sleep. Who acts: Petru. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 69

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So Petru bade her good-night, put the flute in its case, and laid himself down in the lowest chamber to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Petru · **What happens:** bade, put, lay down, sleep · **To what, where:** flute, case, Petru, lowest chamber

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru), 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:pg641:21:69
# text = So Petru bade her good-night, put the flute in its case, and laid himself down in the lowest chamber to sleep.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | Petru |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Petru *not said here* | the flute |  | flute's case |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme in case=Destination |
| 3 | **lay down** | past | Petru *not said here* | Petru |  | the lowest chamber |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in chamber=Destination |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Petru *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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