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title: And when Bellah had put them all on you would have taken her for a g… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Bellah had put them all on you would have taken her for a gentleman dressed in green velvet, lined with white satin. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 83

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And when Bellah had put them all on you would have taken her for a gentleman dressed in green velvet, lined with white satin.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put, take, dress, line · **To what, where:** Bellah, gentleman, green velvet

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg3454:34:83
# text = And when Bellah had put them all on you would have taken her for a gentleman dressed in green velvet, lined with white satin.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	_
17	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · perfect · passive |  | Bellah |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset they=Goal |
| 2 | **take** | would · perfect | you |  | Bellah |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  | a gentleman *not said here* |  | green velvet |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **line** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with white satin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with satin=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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