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title: A chair covered with velvet had been made ready for the king, and he… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A chair covered with velvet had been made ready for the king, and he took his seat upon it, and, looking round upon the assembled company, he said: Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 99

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A chair covered with velvet had been made ready for the king, and he took his seat upon it, and, looking round upon the assembled company, he said:

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** cover, make, take, look round, assemble, say · **To what, where:** chair, seat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (king), 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:pg3282:23:99
# text = A chair covered with velvet had been made ready for the king, and he took his seat upon it, and, looking round upon the assembled company, he said:
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
25	round	round	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	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 | **cover** | participle |  | a chair *not said here* |  |  |  | with velvet | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with velvet=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | a chair |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **take** | past | king | king's seat |  |  |  | upon chair | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme |
| 4 | **look round** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the assembled company; round *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon company=Theme |
| 5 | **assemble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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