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title: Some walked and some rode, some came in beautiful golden coaches; bu… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some walked and some rode, some came in beautiful golden coaches; but all had on splendid dresses of red or blue, while wreaths of flowers rested on their hair. Who acts: Some. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 44

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Some walked and some rode, some came in beautiful golden coaches; but all had on splendid dresses of red or blue, while wreaths of flowers rested on their hair.

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** walk, come, have, rest · **To what, where:** beautiful golden coaches, splendid dresses, flowers, hair

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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:pg3282:10:44
# text = Some walked and some rode, some came in beautiful golden coaches; but all had on splendid dresses of red or blue, while wreaths of flowers rested on their hair.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	rode	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coaches	coach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | some |  |  | beautiful golden coaches |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in coach=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | Some *not said here* |  |  | splendid dresses of red |  | while wreaths of flowers; all *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | participle |  | flowers *not said here* |  | flowers's hair |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hair=Location |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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