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title: His silken clothes were of the brightest flame colour, richly trimme… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His silken clothes were of the brightest flame colour, richly trimmed with gold fringes and lace; a golden girdle was round his waist, while his head was encircled with a crown of gold, and precious stones twinkled about him like stars in a winter’s night, and in place of his wooden stick he held a 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 61

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His silken clothes were of the brightest flame colour, richly trimmed with gold fringes and lace; a golden girdle was round his waist, while his head was encircled with a crown of gold, and precious stones twinkled about him like stars in a winter’s night, and in place of his wooden stick he held a finely worked golden staff.

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**Who acts:** silken clothes, golden girdle, precious stones, friend · **What happens:** be, trim, encircle, twinkle, hold, work · **To what, where:** brightest flame colour, head, worked golden staff, place, gold

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silken clothes, golden girdle, precious stones, friend), 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:pg641:25:61
# text = His silken clothes were of the brightest flame colour, richly trimmed with gold fringes and lace; a golden girdle was round his waist, while his head was encircled with a crown of gold, and precious stones twinkled about him like stars in a winter’s night, and in place of his wooden stick he held a finely worked golden staff.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
8	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	trimmed	trim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fringes	fringe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	encircled	encircle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	twinkled	twinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
42	about	about	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	’s	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
57	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
59	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
62	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	65	amod	_	_
64	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | friend's silken clothes |  |  |  |  | of the brightest flame colour | tree rules |
| 2 | **trim** | participle |  | the brightest flame colour *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold fringes and lace; richly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fringe=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | a golden girdle |  |  |  |  | round friend's waist | tree rules |
| 4 | **encircle** | past · passive |  | friend's head |  |  |  | with a crown of gold | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with crown=Theme |
| 5 | **twinkle** | past | precious stones |  |  |  | night | about friend; like stars | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about he=Location |
| 6 | **hold** | past | friend | a worked golden staff |  | place of friend's wooden stick |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent staff=Theme in place=Location |
| 7 | **work** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | finely *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **crown** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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