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title: Her mother had worn a bright red dress, with black lace, in the Span… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mother had worn a bright red dress, with black lace, in the Spanish style; the daughter had been attired in white, fair and delicate; green silk ribbons fluttered like flag-leaves among her yellow locks, and on her head she wore a wreath of water-lillies. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Fairy T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 47

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Her mother had worn a bright red dress, with black lace, in the Spanish style; the daughter had been attired in white, fair and delicate; green silk ribbons fluttered like flag-leaves among her yellow locks, and on her head she wore a wreath of water-lillies.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** wear, attire, flutter · **To what, where:** mother, Spanish style, daughter, white, green silk ribbons, yellow locks

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg27200:147:47
# text = Her mother had worn a bright red dress, with black lace, in the Spanish style; the daughter had been attired in white, fair and delicate; green silk ribbons fluttered like flag-leaves among her yellow locks, and on her head she wore a wreath of water-lillies.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	attired	attire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
34	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	among	among	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	lillies	lilly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past · perfect · passive |  | amid's mother |  | the Spanish style |  | with black lace | tree rules |
| 2 | **attire** | past · perfect · passive |  | the daughter |  | white |  | green silk ribbons *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **flutter** | participle |  | green silk ribbons *not said here* |  | daughter's yellow locks |  | like flag leaves | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among lock=Location |
| 4 | **wear** | past | mother | a wreath of water lillies |  | daughter's head |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wreath=Source |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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