--- title: His hair stood on end, and he wore a huge bag-purse and a cravat tie… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: His hair stood on end, and he wore a huge bag-purse and a cravat tied in a bow, his mantle was made of a shower of silver coins with a lining of rose colour, and his delight in his own appearance knew no bounds. Who acts: hair, delight, Grumedan. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, delight, Grumedan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:11:165 # text = His hair stood on end, and he wore a huge bag-purse and a cravat tied in a bow, his mantle was made of a shower of silver coins with a lining of rose colour, and his delight in his own appearance knew no bounds. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cravat cravat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 shower shower NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 lining lining NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 47 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 48 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 49 det _ _ 49 bounds bound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | Grumedan's hair | | | | on end | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | | 2 | **wear** | past | hair | a huge bag purse and a cravat | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent purse=Source | | 3 | **tie** | participle | | a cravat *not said here* | | a bow | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past · passive | | Grumedan's mantle | | | | of a shower of silver coins with a lining of rose colour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **know** | past | Grumedan's delight in Grumedan's own appearance | no bounds | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | | 6 | **delight** | | Grumedan | | | Grumedan's own appearance | | | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent in=place | 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. **Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/164/) - next →: [sentence 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/166/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)