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title: And when her maidens came in to dress her in the morning they found… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when her maidens came in to dress her in the morning they found coiled up on the bed a dreadful dragon, which uncoiled itself and came towards them. Who acts: maidens, dreadful dragon. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its dependency
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 15

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And when her maidens came in to dress her in the morning they found coiled up on the bed a dreadful dragon, which uncoiled itself and came towards them.

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**Who acts:** maidens, dreadful dragon · **What happens:** come in, dress, coil up, uncoil, come · **To what, where:** maiden, Heugh, bed

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, dreadful dragon), 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:pg7439:39:15
# text = And when her maidens came in to dress her in the morning they found coiled up on the bed a dreadful dragon, which uncoiled itself and came towards them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	dress	dress	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	coiled	coil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	uncoiled	uncoil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | Worm's maidens |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dress** | to-infinitive |  | maiden |  |  | morning |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **coil up** | past · passive |  | Heugh |  | the bed |  | a dreadful dragon *obl* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
| 4 | **uncoil** | past | a dreadful dragon | bed |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | past | a dreadful dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards Heugh | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial\_Location |

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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:** «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.

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