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title: Then Catherine put on her best clothes and went to the court, and lo… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Catherine put on her best clothes and went to the court, and looked more beautiful than any woman there. Who acts: Catherine. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 1

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Then Catherine put on her best clothes and went to the court, and looked more beautiful than any woman there.

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**Who acts:** Catherine · **What happens:** put, go, look · **To what, where:** best clothes, court

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine), 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:pg5615:19:1
# text = Then Catherine put on her best clothes and went to the court, and looked more beautiful than any woman there.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Catherine |  |  | Catherine's best clothes | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | Catherine *not said here* |  |  | the court |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **look** | past | Catherine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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