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title: Twelve lovely maidens in white silk dresses, holding golden tulips i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Twelve lovely maidens in white silk dresses, holding golden tulips in their hands, rode by her side on coal-black horses. Who acts: Twelve lovely maidens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 38

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Twelve lovely maidens in white silk dresses, holding golden tulips in their hands, rode by her side on coal-black horses.

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**Who acts:** Twelve lovely maidens · **What happens:** dress, hold, ride · **To what, where:** golden tulips, hands

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, 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 (Twelve lovely maidens), 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:pg27200:197:38
# text = Twelve lovely maidens in white silk dresses, holding golden tulips in their hands, rode by her side on coal-black horses.
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	dresses	dress	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | present | Twelve lovely maidens in white silk |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | Twelve lovely maidens in white silk *not said here* | golden tulips |  | maidens's hands |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tulip=Theme in hand=Location |
| 3 | **ride** | past | Twelve lovely maidens in white silk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by princess's side; on black horses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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