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title: He ordered the tailor to make him a mantle and vest of blue velvet e… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He ordered the tailor to make him a mantle and vest of blue velvet embroidered with pearls, and the coachbuilder to make him a golden coach like the coach of the Princess Ludovine. Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 144

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He ordered the tailor to make him a mantle and vest of blue velvet embroidered with pearls, and the coachbuilder to make him a golden coach like the coach of the Princess Ludovine.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** order, make, embroider · **To what, where:** tailor, mantle, soldier, blue velvet, golden coach

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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:pg7277:22:144
# text = He ordered the tailor to make him a mantle and vest of blue velvet embroidered with pearls, and the coachbuilder to make him a golden coach like the coach of the Princess Ludovine.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	vest	vest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	coachbuilder	coachbuilder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Ludovine	Ludovine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | soldier |  | the tailor |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent tailor=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | soldier *not said here* | a mantle and vest of blue velvet | soldier |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary mantle=Product |
| 3 | **embroider** | participle |  | blue velvet *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | soldier *not said here* | a golden coach | soldier |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary coach=Product |

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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 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.

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