---
title: The following night he put the golden arm under his pillow, and was… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The following night he put the golden arm under his pillow, and was just falling asleep, when the ghost of his dead wife glided into the room. Who acts: husband. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Golden Arm](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/) / 9

# English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 9

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The following night he put the golden arm under his pillow, and was just falling asleep, when the ghost of his dead wife glided into the room.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** follow, put, fall, glide, ghost · **To what, where:** golden arm, pillow, ghost, room, dead wife

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7439:27:9
# text = The following night he put the golden arm under his pillow, and was just falling asleep, when the ghost of his dead wife glided into the room.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	glided	glide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | past | husband | the golden arm |  | husband's pillow | night |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme under pillow=Destination |
| 3 | **fall** | past · progressive | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **glide** | participle · passive |  | the ghost of husband's dead wife |  | the room |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into room=Trajectory |
| 5 | **ghost** |  |  | husband's dead wife |  |  |  |  | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/8/)
- next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/10/)
- ↑ back to [The Golden Arm](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/)