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title: With that she closed her eyes for the last time, and when she was ca… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With that she closed her eyes for the last time, and when she was carried to her grave the girl walked behind her coffin weeping bitterly, and paid her all the last honours. Who acts: godmother, girl, coffin. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, with its
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# The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 7

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With that she closed her eyes for the last time, and when she was carried to her grave the girl walked behind her coffin weeping bitterly, and paid her all the last honours.

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**Who acts:** godmother, girl, coffin · **What happens:** close, carry, grave, walk, weep, pay · **To what, where:** eyes, godmother, coffin

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, girl, coffin), 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:pg7277:44:7
# text = With that she closed her eyes for the last time, and when she was carried to her grave the girl walked behind her coffin weeping bitterly, and paid her all the last honours.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
19	grave	grave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | past | godmother | godmother's eyes |  |  | time | with that | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with that=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past · passive |  | godmother |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary her=Value |
| 3 | **grave** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | past | the girl |  |  | godmother's coffin |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind coffin=Trajectory |
| 5 | **weep** | gerund | godmother's coffin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pay** | past | godmother *not said here* |  | godmother |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient honour=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 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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