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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 101

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When they were in the middle of their games there drove into the square a large sledge, all white, and in it sat a figure dressed in a rough white fur pelisse with a white fur cap on.

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**Who acts:** flakes · **What happens:** be, drive, sit, dress · **To what, where:** middle, large sledge, square, figure, rough white fur pelisse

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flakes), 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:pg5615:8:101
# text = When they were in the middle of their games there drove into the square a large sledge, all white, and in it sat a figure dressed in a rough white fur pelisse with a white fur cap on.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
25	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	pelisse	pelisse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | flakes *= flake* |  |  | the middle |  | of flakes's games | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | past |  | a large sledge |  | the square; there |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme into square=Trajectory |
| 3 | **sit** | past |  | a figure |  | square |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme in it=Location |
| 4 | **dress** | participle |  | a figure *not said here* |  | a rough white fur pelisse with a white fur cap |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP 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 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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