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title: It was of green velvet, scattered over with large golden thistles, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was of green velvet, scattered over with large golden thistles, and lined inside with silver brocade embroidered with pink roses. Who acts: carriage. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 22

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It was of green velvet, scattered over with large golden thistles, and lined inside with silver brocade embroidered with pink roses.

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**Who acts:** carriage · **What happens:** be, scatter over, line, embroider · **To what, where:** green velvet, silver brocade

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage), 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:pg3027:23:22
# text = It was of green velvet, scattered over with large golden thistles, and lined inside with silver brocade embroidered with pink roses.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	thistles	thistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
16	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | carriage |  |  |  |  | of green velvet | tree rules |
| 2 | **scatter over** | participle |  | green velvet *not said here* |  |  |  | with large golden thistles; over *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thistle=Theme |
| 3 | **line** | participle |  | green velvet *not said here* |  |  |  | with silver brocade; inside *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with brocade=Theme |
| 4 | **embroider** | participle |  | silver brocade *not said here* |  |  |  | with pink roses | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rose=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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