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title: And trews being the vest and breeches united in one piece, and ornam… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And trews being the vest and breeches united in one piece, and ornamented with fringes, were very comfortable, and suitable to be worn in walking or dancing. Who acts: trews, vest. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 2

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And trews being the vest and breeches united in one piece, and ornamented with fringes, were very comfortable, and suitable to be worn in walking or dancing.

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**Who acts:** trews, vest · **What happens:** be, breech, ornament, wear · **To what, where:** vest, one piece, walking

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trews, vest), 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:pg7885:12:2
# text = And trews being the vest and breeches united in one piece, and ornamented with fringes, were very comfortable, and suitable to be worn in walking or dancing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	trews	trew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	vest	vest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	breeches	breech	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	united	united	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fringes	fringe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | trews | the vest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **breech** | present | the vest *not said here* |  |  | one piece |  | united *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ornament** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with fringes; comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | walking or dancing |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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