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title: Patiently she allowed the women to array her in royal robes, to weav… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Patiently she allowed the women to array her in royal robes, to weave pearls in her hair, and draw soft gloves over her blistered fingers. Who acts: head, women. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 93

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Patiently she allowed the women to array her in royal robes, to weave pearls in her hair, and draw soft gloves over her blistered fingers.

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**Who acts:** head, women · **What happens:** allow, array, weave, draw, blister · **To what, where:** women, head, royal robes, pearls, hair, soft gloves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (head, women), 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:pg27200:209:93
# text = Patiently she allowed the women to array her in royal robes, to weave pearls in her hair, and draw soft gloves over her blistered fingers.
1	Patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	array	array	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	blistered	blister	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past | head | the women |  |  |  | patiently *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer woman=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **array** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the women *not said here* | head |  | royal robes |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **weave** | to-infinitive | the women *not said here* | pearls |  | head's hair |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Product |
| 4 | **draw** | present | head *not said here* | soft gloves |  | head's blistered fingers |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme |
| 5 | **blister** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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