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title: The coachman thanked the King for his graciousness, and was then led… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The coachman thanked the King for his graciousness, and was then led away to be richly dressed and instructed in all the arts and graces that befitted his new position. Who acts: coachman, arts. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 38

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The coachman thanked the King for his graciousness, and was then led away to be richly dressed and instructed in all the arts and graces that befitted his new position.

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**Who acts:** coachman, arts · **What happens:** thank, lead away, dress, instruct, befit · **To what, where:** King, arts, new position

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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 (coachman, arts), 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:pg7277:56:38
# text = The coachman thanked the King for his graciousness, and was then led away to be richly dressed and instructed in all the arts and graces that befitted his new position.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	graciousness	graciousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	graces	grace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	befitted	befit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the coachman |  | the King |  |  | for coachman's graciousness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent king=Theme for graciousness=Attribute |
| 2 | **lead away** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP» |
| 3 | **dress** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **instruct** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  | all arts and graces |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **befit** | past | all arts and graces | coachman's new position |  |  |  |  | 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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