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title: For her only crown, long braids of soft brown hair were coiled about… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: For her only crown, long braids of soft brown hair were coiled about her head; and a tender smile lit up her noble face as she looked into her sons' proud eyes. Who acts: walk, long braids, tender smile. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels., with its depen
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 14

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For her only crown, long braids of soft brown hair were coiled about her head; and a tender smile lit up her noble face as she looked into her sons' proud eyes.

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**Who acts:** walk, long braids, tender smile · **What happens:** crown, be, lit up, look · **To what, where:** noble face

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walk, long braids, tender smile), 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:pg18442:29:14
# text = For her only crown, long braids of soft brown hair were coiled about her head; and a tender smile lit up her noble face as she looked into her sons' proud eyes.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	crown	crown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	braids	braid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	coiled	coiled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crown** | present | walk |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | long braids of soft brown hair |  |  |  |  | about walk's head; coiled *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lit up** | participle | a tender smile | walk's noble face |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | past | walk |  |  |  |  | into walk's sons's proud eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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