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title: She next passed on to the bedside of the princess, who still lay asl… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She next passed on to the bedside of the princess, who still lay asleep grasping the withered flowers. Who acts: woman, princess. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 14

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She next passed on to the bedside of the princess, who still lay asleep grasping the withered flowers.

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**Who acts:** woman, princess · **What happens:** pass on, lie, grasp, wither · **To what, where:** bedside, withered flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, princess), 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:pg641:39:14
# text = She next passed on to the bedside of the princess, who still lay asleep grasping the withered flowers.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bedside	bedside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	grasping	grasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass on** | past | woman |  |  | the bedside of the princess |  | next *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bedside=Destination |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the princess |  |  |  | still | asleep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grasp** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | the withered flowers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wither** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 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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