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title: So the fisherman gave them each a lambskin cap which half covered th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 87

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So the fisherman gave them each a lambskin cap which half covered their faces, and completely hid their golden hair and the stars on their foreheads, and led them to the court.

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**Who acts:** fisherman, half · **What happens:** give, cover, hide, lead · **To what, where:** lambskin cap, boys, golden hair, foreheads, court

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, half), 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:pg641:35:87
# text = So the fisherman gave them each a lambskin cap which half covered their faces, and completely hid their golden hair and the stars on their foreheads, and led them to the court.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lambskin	lambskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	nsubj	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the fisherman | each lambskin cap | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cap=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | past | half | each lambskin cap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | past | the fisherman *not said here* | boys's golden hair and the stars |  | boys's foreheads |  | completely *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hair=Patient on forehead=Location |
| 4 | **lead** | past | the fisherman *not said here* | boys *= boy* |  | the court |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to court=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 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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