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title: When he was about to lie down in bed he would creep out of his hedge… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was about to lie down in bed he would creep out of his hedgehog skin, and leave it lying at the bedside; then the men must rush in, throw the skin into the fire, and stand by till it was entirely burnt up. Who acts: harm, skin, men. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack M
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 68

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When he was about to lie down in bed he would creep out of his hedgehog skin, and leave it lying at the bedside; then the men must rush in, throw the skin into the fire, and stand by till it was entirely burnt up.

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**Who acts:** harm, skin, men · **What happens:** be, lie down, creep out, leave, lie, rush in · **To what, where:** bed, hedgehog skin, skin, bedside, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, skin, men), 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:pg7277:48:68
# text = When he was about to lie down in bed he would creep out of his hedgehog skin, and leave it lying at the bedside; then the men must rush in, throw the skin into the fire, and stand by till it was entirely burnt up.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bedside	bedside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	obl	_	_
44	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
47	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	advcl	_	_
49	up	up	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | harm |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie down** | to-infinitive | harm *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 3 | **creep out** | would | harm | harm's hedgehog skin |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location skin=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | harm *not said here* | skin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | skin *not said here* |  |  | the bedside |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bedside=Location |
| 6 | **rush in** | must | the men |  |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **throw** | infinitive | the men *not said here* | the skin |  |  |  | into the fire *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer skin=Theme into fire=Result |
| 8 | **stand by** | infinitive | the men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **burnt up** | past · passive |  | fire |  |  |  | entirely *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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