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description: It was embroidered with silver all over it, and it shone like the silver wood, and he gave her also a most beautiful horse, with housings embroidered with silver, and a bridle of silver too. Who acts: gown, man. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2, with its dep
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 48

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It was embroidered with silver all over it, and it shone like the silver wood, and he gave her also a most beautiful horse, with housings embroidered with silver, and a bridle of silver too.

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**Who acts:** gown, man · **What happens:** embroider, shine, give · **To what, where:** gown, silver, beautiful horse, Kari, housings

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gown, man), 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:pg540:30:48
# text = It was embroidered with silver all over it, and it shone like the silver wood, and he gave her also a most beautiful horse, with housings embroidered with silver, and a bridle of silver too.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	housings	housing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
30	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embroider** | past · passive |  | gown |  | silver |  | with silver; a bridle of silver *obl* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme over it=Destination |
| 2 | **shine** | past | gown |  |  |  |  | like the silver wood | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | man | a beautiful horse | Kari |  |  | with housings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient horse=Theme |
| 4 | **embroider** | participle |  | housings *not said here* |  |  |  | with silver | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=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 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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