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title: Then he dressed himself in rags, dyed himself with soot, and put on… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he dressed himself in rags, dyed himself with soot, and put on a wig and a great beard of goat’s hair, so that it was impossible to recognise him, and went to the parade ground, where the Governor had already been riding about a long time. Who acts: harm, Governor. A sentence of «The Red Fairy 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 207

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Then he dressed himself in rags, dyed himself with soot, and put on a wig and a great beard of goat’s hair, so that it was impossible to recognise him, and went to the parade ground, where the Governor had already been riding about a long time.

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**Who acts:** harm, Governor · **What happens:** dress, dye, put, be, recognise, go · **To what, where:** harm, rags, wig, parade ground

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, Governor), 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:pg540:9:207
# text = Then he dressed himself in rags, dyed himself with soot, and put on a wig and a great beard of goat’s hair, so that it was impossible to recognise him, and went to the parade ground, where the Governor had already been riding about a long time.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dyed	dye	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	31	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	expl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	csubj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	parade	parade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	49	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	already	already	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	aux	_	_
49	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
50	about	about	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | harm | harm |  | rags | then |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **dye** | past | harm *not said here* | harm |  |  |  | with soot | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | participle | harm *not said here* |  |  | a wig and a great beard of goat's hair |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on wig=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **recognise** | to-infinitive |  | harm |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go** | past | harm *not said here* |  |  | the parade ground |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **ride** | past · perfect · progressive | the Governor |  |  |  | time |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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