--- title: Michael gathered it, and found himself in a moment clothed in velvet… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Michael gathered it, and found himself in a moment clothed in velvet, which was as black as the eyes of the little Princess, with a cap to match, a diamond aigrette, and a blossom of the rose laurel in his button-hole. Who acts: Michael, velvet. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/164/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/) / 164 # The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 164 Michael gathered it, and found himself in a moment clothed in velvet, which was as black as the eyes of the little Princess, with a cap to match, a diamond aigrette, and a blossom of the rose laurel in his button-hole. **Who acts:** Michael, velvet · **What happens:** gather, find, clothe, be, match · **To what, where:** flower, Michael, moment This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, velvet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:2:164 # text = Michael gathered it, and found himself in a moment clothed in velvet, which was as black as the eyes of the little Princess, with a cap to match, a diamond aigrette, and a blossom of the rose laurel in his button-hole. 1 Michael Michael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 clothed clothe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 diamond diamond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 aigrette aigrette NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 blossom blossom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 laurel laurel NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 46 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gather** | past | Michael | flower | | | | a blossom of the rose laurel in Michael's button hole *obl* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | Michael *not said here* | Michael | | | moment | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 3 | **clothe** | participle | | a moment *not said here* | | | | in velvet | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in velvet=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | velvet | | | | | as the eyes of the little Princess; black *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **match** | to-infinitive | Michael *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/163/) - next →: [sentence 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/165/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/)