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title: It was a magnificent tunic of orange velvet, embroidered in pearls,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a magnificent tunic of orange velvet, embroidered in pearls, but the pearls were not so white as her own neck. Who acts: tunic, pearls. 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 43

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It was a magnificent tunic of orange velvet, embroidered in pearls, but the pearls were not so white as her own neck.

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**Who acts:** tunic, pearls · **What happens:** be, embroider, not be · **To what, where:** magnificent tunic, orange velvet, pearls

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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 (tunic, pearls), 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:pg7277:22:43
# text = It was a magnificent tunic of orange velvet, embroidered in pearls, but the pearls were not so white as her own neck.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tunic	tunic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | tunic | a magnificent tunic |  |  |  | of orange velvet | tree rules |
| 2 | **embroider** | participle |  | orange velvet *not said here* |  | pearls |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pearl=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the pearls |  |  |  |  | as Ludovine's own neck; white *property* | tree rules |

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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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