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title: Their harness was all of crimson velvet with gold buckles, and behin… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their harness was all of crimson velvet with gold buckles, and behind the carriage walked sixty beautiful ladies chosen by the King to wait upon Rosette and amuse her. Who acts: harness, carriage. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 147

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Their harness was all of crimson velvet with gold buckles, and behind the carriage walked sixty beautiful ladies chosen by the King to wait upon Rosette and amuse her.

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**Who acts:** harness, carriage · **What happens:** be, walk, choose, wait, amuse · **To what, where:** sixty beautiful ladies, Rosette

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harness, carriage), 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:pg540:11:147
# text = Their harness was all of crimson velvet with gold buckles, and behind the carriage walked sixty beautiful ladies chosen by the King to wait upon Rosette and amuse her.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	buckles	buckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl:agent	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Rosette	rosette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	amuse	amuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | monkeys's harness |  |  |  |  | of all crimson velvet; with gold buckles | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the carriage | sixty beautiful ladies |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location lady=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | participle |  | sixty beautiful ladies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wait** | to-infinitive | the carriage *not said here* |  |  | Rosette |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rosette=Location |
| 5 | **amuse** | present | the carriage *not said here* | Rosette |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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