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title: Again, before putting on her magic dresses she bathes in a pellucid… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Again, before putting on her magic dresses she bathes in a pellucid pool. Who acts: Cat. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 21

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Again, before putting on her magic dresses she bathes in a pellucid pool.

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**Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** put, dress, bathe · **To what, where:** magic

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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:pg14241:76:21
# text = Again, before putting on her magic dresses she bathes in a pellucid pool.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	dresses	dress	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bathes	bathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	pellucid	pellucid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | gerund |  |  |  | Cat's magic |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on magic=Destination |
| 2 | **dress** | present |  |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bathe** | present | Cat |  |  |  |  | in a pellucid pool | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pool=Theme |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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