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title: Inside the carriage sat a beautiful girl in a black dress crying bit… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside the carriage sat a beautiful girl in a black dress crying bitterly. Who acts: black dress. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 17

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Inside the carriage sat a beautiful girl in a black dress crying bitterly.

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**Who acts:** black dress · **What happens:** sit, cry · **To what, where:** beautiful girl, carriage

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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 (black dress), 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:pg7277:56:17
# text = Inside the carriage sat a beautiful girl in a black dress crying bitterly.
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | a beautiful girl |  | the carriage |  | in a black dress | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme inside carriage=Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a black dress *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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