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title: The Princess dressed herself all in white, and her father gave her a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess dressed herself all in white, and her father gave her a coach with six horses and servants in gorgeous liveries and quantities of money. Who acts: Princess, father. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 56

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The Princess dressed herself all in white, and her father gave her a coach with six horses and servants in gorgeous liveries and quantities of money.

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**Who acts:** Princess, father · **What happens:** dress, give · **To what, where:** Princess, white, coach, gorgeous liveries

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, father), 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:pg7277:48:56
# text = The Princess dressed herself all in white, and her father gave her a coach with six horses and servants in gorgeous liveries and quantities of money.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	liveries	livery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | the Princess | Princess |  | white |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | Princess's father | a coach | Princess | gorgeous liveries and quantities of money |  | with six horses and servants | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient coach=Theme |

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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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