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title: Then he dressed himself carefully in rich brocade, with scarlet and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 67

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Then he dressed himself carefully in rich brocade, with scarlet and white plumes, and threw a splendid embroidered scarf over his shoulder, and, looking as gay and as graceful as possible, he presented himself at the door of the palace, carrying in his arm a tiny pretty dog which he had bought on the way.

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**Who acts:** Hark · **What happens:** dress, throw, embroider, look, present, carry · **To what, where:** Hark, rich brocade, splendid embroidered scarf, shoulder, door, tiny pretty dog

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hark), 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:pg503:28:67
# text = Then he dressed himself carefully in rich brocade, with scarlet and white plumes, and threw a splendid embroidered scarf over his shoulder, and, looking as gay and as graceful as possible, he presented himself at the door of the palace, carrying in his arm a tiny pretty dog which he had bought on the way.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	plumes	plume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
52	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	pretty	pretty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
55	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl:relcl	_	_
59	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | Hark | Hark |  | rich brocade | then | carefully *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | past | Hark *not said here* | a splendid embroidered scarf |  | Hark's shoulder |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent scarf=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
| 3 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | Hark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as gay | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **present** | past | Hark | Hark |  | the door of the palace |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 6 | **carry** | gerund | Hark *not said here* | a tiny pretty dog |  | Hark's arm |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Value in arm=Location |
| 7 | **buy** | past · perfect · passive |  | a tiny pretty dog |  | the way |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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