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title: And when she lay dead, the young King remembered what he had promise… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when she lay dead, the young King remembered what he had promised, and it made him shudder to think of lying in her grave alive, but there was no escape. Who acts: doctor, young King, King, wedding. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves, with its dependency 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 18

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And when she lay dead, the young King remembered what he had promised, and it made him shudder to think of lying in her grave alive, but there was no escape.

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**Who acts:** doctor, young King, King, wedding, escape · **What happens:** lie, remember, promise, make, think, be · **To what, where:** shudder, King, grave alive

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor, young King, King, wedding), 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:pg7277:46:18
# text = And when she lay dead, the young King remembered what he had promised, and it made him shudder to think of lying in her grave alive, but there was no escape.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | doctor |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remember** | past | the young King |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | wedding | shudder | King |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary shudder=Product |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | wedding *not said here* | shudder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lie** | gerund | wedding *not said here* |  |  | doctor's grave alive |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in alive=Location |
| 7 | **be** | past | no escape |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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