--- title: Drums and trumpets sounded, a man in a scarlet mantle, embroidered i… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Drums and trumpets sounded, a man in a scarlet mantle, embroidered in gold, sat on a splendidly caparisoned horse surrounded by richly dressed slaves; half Bagdad crowded after him, and they all shouted, ‘Hail, Mirza, the Lord of Bagdad!’ Who acts: Drums, half. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drums, half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:7:88 # text = Drums and trumpets sounded, a man in a scarlet mantle, embroidered in gold, sat on a splendidly caparisoned horse surrounded by richly dressed slaves; half Bagdad crowded after him, and they all shouted, ‘Hail, Mirza, the Lord of Bagdad!’ 1 Drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 trumpets trumpet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 scarlet scarlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 embroidered embroider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 splendidly splendidly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 caparisoned caparison VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 richly richly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 31 nsubj _ _ 30 Bagdad Bagdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 31 crowded crowd VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 32 after after ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 shouted shout VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Hail hail NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 Mirza Mirza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Bagdad Bagdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ! ! PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | past | Drums and trumpets | a man in a scarlet mantle | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **embroider** | participle | | a man in a scarlet mantle *not said here* | | gold | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in gold=Destination | | 3 | **sit** | past | Drums and trumpets *not said here* | | | | | on a caparisoned horse | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location | | 4 | **caparison** | participle | | | | | | splendidly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **surround** | participle | | a caparisoned horse *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **dress** | participle | | | | | | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **crowd** | past | half | | | | after Bagdad | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle · passive | | Drums *= drum* | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/89/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Caliph Stork](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/)