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title: Then he laid her on a silken couch, put soft pillows beneath her hea… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he laid her on a silken couch, put soft pillows beneath her head, and covered her with warm blankets and quilted coverlets. Who acts: Smith. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 119

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Then he laid her on a silken couch, put soft pillows beneath her head, and covered her with warm blankets and quilted coverlets.

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**Who acts:** Smith · **What happens:** lay, put, cover, quilt · **To what, where:** cold, silken couch, soft pillows, head

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:31:119
# text = Then he laid her on a silken couch, put soft pillows beneath her head, and covered her with warm blankets and quilted coverlets.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pillows	pillow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	quilted	quilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	coverlets	coverlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	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 | **lay** | past | Smith | cold |  | a silken couch | then |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on couch=Destination |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Smith *not said here* | soft pillows |  | cold's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pillow=Theme beneath head=Destination |
| 3 | **cover** | past | Smith *not said here* |  | cold |  |  | with warm blankets and quilted coverlets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with blanket=Theme |
| 4 | **quilt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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