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title: She gave him at the same time a cloak made of copper, and led him to… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She gave him at the same time a cloak made of copper, and led him to a big room where several young he-dragons and she-dragons were dancing together. Who acts: mare, Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 61

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She gave him at the same time a cloak made of copper, and led him to a big room where several young he-dragons and she-dragons were dancing together.

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**Who acts:** mare, Prince · **What happens:** give, make, lead, dragon, dance · **To what, where:** Prince, cloak, big room

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare, Prince), 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:pg640:34:61
# text = She gave him at the same time a cloak made of copper, and led him to a big room where several young he-dragons and she-dragons were dancing together.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
22	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
33	together	together	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | mare |  | Prince |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a cloak *not said here* |  |  |  | of copper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **lead** | past |  | Prince |  | a big room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination |
| 4 | **dragon** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dance** | past · progressive | mare |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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