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title: On they came, every man dressed in his finest clothes, and the crowd… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On they came, every man dressed in his finest clothes, and the crowd that was lining the road bowed their faces to the ground as they went by. Who acts: pots, crowd. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 46

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On they came, every man dressed in his finest clothes, and the crowd that was lining the road bowed their faces to the ground as they went by.

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**Who acts:** pots, crowd · **What happens:** come, dress, line, bow, go by · **To what, where:** man, finest clothes, road, faces, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pots, crowd), 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:pg641:18:46
# text = On they came, every man dressed in his finest clothes, and the crowd that was lining the road bowed their faces to the ground as they went by.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	lining	line	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | pots *= pot* | every man |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  | every man *not said here* |  | man's finest clothes |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **line** | past · progressive | the crowd | the road |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Destination |
| 4 | **bow** | past | the crowd | pots's faces | the ground |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Topic to ground=Recipient |
| 5 | **go by** | past | pots *= pot* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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