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title: The Dwarf was rewarded with a gold piece, and decorated with so many… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dwarf was rewarded with a gold piece, and decorated with so many ribbons that it was hardly possible to see him at all. Who acts: glance. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 67

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The Dwarf was rewarded with a gold piece, and decorated with so many ribbons that it was hardly possible to see him at all.

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**Who acts:** glance · **What happens:** reward, decorate, be, see · **To what, where:** Dwarf, all

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glance), 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:pg540:3:67
# text = The Dwarf was rewarded with a gold piece, and decorated with so many ribbons that it was hardly possible to see him at all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reward** | past · passive |  | the Dwarf |  |  |  | with a gold piece | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with piece=Theme |
| 2 | **decorate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with many ribbons | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ribbon=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | glance |  |  |  |  | hardly, possible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | dwarf |  | all |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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