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title: “For my part,” said the eldest, “I will wear my red velvet suit with… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “For my part,” said the eldest, “I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimming.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 14

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“For my part,” said the eldest, “I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimming.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** say, wear · **To what, where:** red velvet suit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg503:11:14
# text = “For my part,” said the eldest, “I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimming.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	trimming	trimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | for my part | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wear** *in a quote* | future | I | my red velvet suit |  |  |  | with French trimming | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent suit=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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