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title: His superb robe of cloth of gold was girt round him by a white cashm… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His superb robe of cloth of gold was girt round him by a white cashmere shawl, and his white, richly jewelled turban showed that he was a man of wealth and high rank. Who acts: superb robe, white richly jewelled turban, person. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 79

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His superb robe of cloth of gold was girt round him by a white cashmere shawl, and his white, richly jewelled turban showed that he was a man of wealth and high rank.

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**Who acts:** superb robe, white richly jewelled turban, person · **What happens:** be, jewell, show · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (superb robe, white richly jewelled turban, person), 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:pg2435:34:79
# text = His superb robe of cloth of gold was girt round him by a white cashmere shawl, and his white, richly jewelled turban showed that he was a man of wealth and high rank.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	superb	superb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	girt	girt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	cashmere	cashmere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	shawl	shawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	richly	richly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	jewelled	jewell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	turban	turban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | person's superb robe of cloth of gold |  |  |  |  | round person; by a white cashmere shawl; girt *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **jewell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | past | person's white richly jewelled turban |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | person | a man and high rank |  |  |  | of wealth | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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