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title: Inside sat John, clad in blue velvet, with a bouquet of immortelles… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside sat John, clad in blue velvet, with a bouquet of immortelles in his hand and a scarf bound round his arm. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 147

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Inside sat John, clad in blue velvet, with a bouquet of immortelles in his hand and a scarf bound round his arm.

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**What happens:** sit, clad, bind · **To what, where:** John, blue velvet, scarf

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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: 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:pg7277:22:147
# text = Inside sat John, clad in blue velvet, with a bouquet of immortelles in his hand and a scarf bound round his arm.
1	Inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	clad	clad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	immortelles	immortelle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | John |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location john=Theme |
| 2 | **clad** | past |  |  |  | blue velvet |  | with a bouquet of immortelles in soldier's hand and a scarf | tree rules |
| 3 | **bind** | participle |  | a scarf *not said here* |  |  |  | round soldier's arm | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 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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