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title: They wore red shirts bound with gold braid, and were so much alike t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They wore red shirts bound with gold braid, and were so much alike that one could hardly tell one from another. Who acts: peasants, one. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 72

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They wore red shirts bound with gold braid, and were so much alike that one could hardly tell one from another.

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**Who acts:** peasants, one · **What happens:** wear, bind, be · **To what, where:** red shirts, another

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, one), 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:pg2435:4:72
# text = They wore red shirts bound with gold braid, and were so much alike that one could hardly tell one from another.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	braid	braid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	alike	alike	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | peasants *= peasant* | red shirts |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme |
| 2 | **bind** | participle |  | red shirts *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold braid | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with braid=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | could · past | that one |  |  | another |  | hardly, tell *property* | 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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