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title: All the boys in the country side were there, armed with wooden sword… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the boys in the country side were there, armed with wooden swords, and decorated with epaulets made of gilt paper. Who acts: boys. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 296

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All the boys in the country side were there, armed with wooden swords, and decorated with epaulets made of gilt paper.

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**Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** be, arm, decorate, make · **To what, where:** epaulets

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:3192`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:40:296
# text = All the boys in the country side were there, armed with wooden swords, and decorated with epaulets made of gilt paper.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	armed	arm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	epaulets	epaulet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	gilt	gilt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all boys in the country side |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **arm** | participle | all boys in the country side *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wooden swords | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with sword=Theme |
| 3 | **decorate** | participle | all boys in the country side *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with epaulets | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with epaulet=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | epaulets *not said here* |  |  |  | of gilt paper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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