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title: As for the ladies, the girls twisted silken scarves round his plumed… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the ladies, the girls twisted silken scarves round his plumed hat, and their mothers knitted him gloves of all colours, to keep out the cold. Who acts: girls, mothers. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 12

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As for the ladies, the girls twisted silken scarves round his plumed hat, and their mothers knitted him gloves of all colours, to keep out the cold.

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**Who acts:** girls, mothers · **What happens:** twist, plume, knit, keep out · **To what, where:** silken scarves, plumed hat, gloves, Tiidu, cold

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, mothers), 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:pg2435:11:12
# text = As for the ladies, the girls twisted silken scarves round his plumed hat, and their mothers knitted him gloves of all colours, to keep out the cold.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	twisted	twist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	scarves	scarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	plumed	plume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	knitted	knit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twist** | past | the girls | silken scarves |  | Tiidu's plumed hat |  | as the ladies | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent scarf=Theme round hat=Trajectory |
| 2 | **plume** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **knit** | past | girls's mothers | gloves of all colours | Tiidu |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary glove=Product |
| 4 | **keep out** | to-infinitive | girls's mothers *not said here* | the cold |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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