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title: They bowed respectfully to her and displayed some splendid velvets a… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They bowed respectfully to her and displayed some splendid velvets and brocades, and opened cases of pearls and precious stones. Who acts: servants. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 78

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They bowed respectfully to her and displayed some splendid velvets and brocades, and opened cases of pearls and precious stones.

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**Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** bow, display, open · **To what, where:** princess, splendid velvets, cases

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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:pg2435:5:78
# text = They bowed respectfully to her and displayed some splendid velvets and brocades, and opened cases of pearls and precious stones.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	displayed	display	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	velvets	velvet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	brocades	brocade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | past | servants *= servant* |  | princess |  |  | respectfully *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot |
| 2 | **display** | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | some splendid velvets and brocades |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent velvet=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | past |  | cases of pearls and precious stones |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location case=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:** «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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