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title: They laid themselves down on the green carpet and soon fell fast asl… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They laid themselves down on the green carpet and soon fell fast asleep, and did not waken again till the sun was high in the heavens. Who acts: inhabitants, sun. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 46

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They laid themselves down on the green carpet and soon fell fast asleep, and did not waken again till the sun was high in the heavens.

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**Who acts:** inhabitants, sun · **What happens:** lay down, fall, not waken, be · **To what, where:** inhabitants, green carpet, heavens

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, sun), 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:pg7277:25:46
# text = They laid themselves down on the green carpet and soon fell fast asleep, and did not waken again till the sun was high in the heavens.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	waken	waken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay down** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  | the green carpet |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on carpet=Destination |
| 2 | **fall** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast, soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **waken** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the sun |  |  | the heavens |  | high *property* | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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