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title: The Dryad saw herself enveloped in lace and silk, like the women of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dryad saw herself enveloped in lace and silk, like the women of wealth and of high birth around her. Who acts: Dryad, staircase. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 130

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The Dryad saw herself enveloped in lace and silk, like the women of wealth and of high birth around her.

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**Who acts:** Dryad, staircase · **What happens:** see, envelop · **To what, where:** staircase, lace

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (Dryad, staircase), 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:pg27200:25:130
# text = The Dryad saw herself enveloped in lace and silk, like the women of wealth and of high birth around her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	enveloped	envelop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Dryad | staircase |  |  |  | like the women of wealth and high birth around staircase | tree rules |
| 2 | **envelop** | participle | staircase *not said here* |  |  | lace and silk |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «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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