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title: The second was also finely dressed, but younger in appearance, and a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The second was also finely dressed, but younger in appearance, and also sat on a chair, but it was not so grand as the first one’s. Who acts: chair. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 13

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The second was also finely dressed, but younger in appearance, and also sat on a chair, but it was not so grand as the first one’s.

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**Who acts:** chair · **What happens:** dress, sit, not be · **To what, where:** second, chair

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chair), 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:pg640:49:13
# text = The second was also finely dressed, but younger in appearance, and also sat on a chair, but it was not so grand as the first one’s.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive |  | the second |  |  |  | finely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | a chair |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | chair |  |  |  |  | as the first one; grand *property* | tree rules |

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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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