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title: They gave her a muff as well as some shoes; she was warmly dressed,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They gave her a muff as well as some shoes; she was warmly dressed, and when she was ready, there in front of the door stood a coach of pure gold, with a coachman, footmen and postilions with gold crowns on. Who acts: people, Gerda. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 153

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They gave her a muff as well as some shoes; she was warmly dressed, and when she was ready, there in front of the door stood a coach of pure gold, with a coachman, footmen and postilions with gold crowns on.

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**Who acts:** people, Gerda · **What happens:** give, dress, be, stand · **To what, where:** muff, Gerda, coach, front

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Gerda), 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:pg5615:9:153
# text = They gave her a muff as well as some shoes; she was warmly dressed, and when she was ready, there in front of the door stood a coach of pure gold, with a coachman, footmen and postilions with gold crowns on.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	muff	muff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	2	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	footmen	footman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	appos	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	postilions	postilion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
46	on	on	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | people | a muff | Gerda |  |  | as some shoes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient muff=Theme |
| 2 | **dress** | past · passive |  | Gerda |  |  |  | warmly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | people *not said here* | a coach of pure gold |  | front of the door; there |  | with a coachman; with gold crowns | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coach=Theme in front=Destination |

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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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