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title: The Abbot came with a goodly retinue, with his fifty knights-at-arms… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Abbot came with a goodly retinue, with his fifty knights-at-arms in velvet cloaks and gold chains. Who acts: Abbot. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 28

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The Abbot came with a goodly retinue, with his fifty knights-at-arms in velvet cloaks and gold chains.

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**Who acts:** Abbot · **What happens:** come

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abbot), 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:pg14241:28:28
# text = The Abbot came with a goodly retinue, with his fifty knights-at-arms in velvet cloaks and gold chains.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Abbot	Abbot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	retinue	retinue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Abbot |  |  |  |  | with a goodly retinue; with Abbot's fifty knights at arms in velvet cloaks and gold chains | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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