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title: So he went to his son-in-law’s room, and who should he see lying in… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went to his son-in-law’s room, and who should he see lying in the bed but a splendid golden man, and the rough bearskin thrown on the ground close by. Who acts: brother. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 65

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So he went to his son-in-law’s room, and who should he see lying in the bed but a splendid golden man, and the rough bearskin thrown on the ground close by.

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**Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** go, see, lie, throw · **To what, where:** close, room, bed, rough bearskin, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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:pg7277:49:65
# text = So he went to his son-in-law’s room, and who should he see lying in the bed but a splendid golden man, and the rough bearskin thrown on the ground close by.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	bearskin	bearskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | brother | close |  | brother's room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the bed but a splendid golden man |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 4 | **throw** | participle |  | the rough bearskin *not said here* |  | the ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination |

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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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