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title: It was drawn by twelve snow-white horses, harnessed four abreast; th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was drawn by twelve snow-white horses, harnessed four abreast; their trappings were flame-colored velvet, embroidered with diamonds. Who acts: twelve white horses, trappings. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 11

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It was drawn by twelve snow-white horses, harnessed four abreast; their trappings were flame-colored velvet, embroidered with diamonds.

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**Who acts:** twelve white horses, trappings · **What happens:** draw, harness, color, be, embroider · **To what, where:** chariot, four, flame colored velvet

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve white horses, trappings), 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:pg503:24:11
# text = It was drawn by twelve snow-white horses, harnessed four abreast; their trappings were flame-colored velvet, embroidered with diamonds.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
6	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	abreast	abreast	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	trappings	trapping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · passive | twelve white horses | chariot |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **harness** | participle | twelve white horses *not said here* | four |  |  |  | abreast *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent four=Destination |
| 3 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | horses's trappings | flame colored velvet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **embroider** | participle |  | flame colored velvet *not said here* |  |  |  | with diamonds | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=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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