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title: One day he met a carriage and pair, all draped in black; even the ho… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day he met a carriage and pair, all draped in black; even the horses were covered with black trappings, and the coachman was clothed in crape from top to toe. Who acts: youth, carriage. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 16

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One day he met a carriage and pair, all draped in black; even the horses were covered with black trappings, and the coachman was clothed in crape from top to toe.

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**Who acts:** youth, carriage · **What happens:** meet, drape, cover, clothe · **To what, where:** carriage, all, black, horses, coachman, crape

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, carriage), 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:pg7277:56:16
# text = One day he met a carriage and pair, all draped in black; even the horses were covered with black trappings, and the coachman was clothed in crape from top to toe.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	draped	drape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	trappings	trapping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	crape	crape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | youth | a carriage and pair |  |  | day |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **drape** | participle · passive | a carriage and pair *not said here* | all |  | black |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in black=Destination |
| 3 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the horses |  |  |  | with black trappings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with trapping=Theme |
| 4 | **clothe** | past · passive |  | the coachman |  | crape |  | from top to toe | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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