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title: Splendid clothing was given to her, and a horse, with hair partly of… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Splendid clothing was given to her, and a horse, with hair partly of gold, partly of silver, and partly of something more precious still. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 45

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Splendid clothing was given to her, and a horse, with hair partly of gold, partly of silver, and partly of something more precious still.

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Splendid clothing, girl

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg540:14:45
# text = Splendid clothing was given to her, and a horse, with hair partly of gold, partly of silver, and partly of something more precious still.
1	Splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | Splendid clothing | girl |  |  | partly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient |

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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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