--- title: Her dress was fine as silk, green as the freshly-opened leaves on th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Her dress was fine as silk, green as the freshly-opened leaves on the crown of the tree; in her nut-brown hair clung a half-opened chestnut blossom. Who acts: dress, brown hair. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dress, brown hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:25:88 # text = Her dress was fine as silk, green as the freshly-opened leaves on the crown of the tree; in her nut-brown hair clung a half-opened chestnut blossom. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 freshly freshly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 24 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 28 clung cling VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 30 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 33 chestnut chestnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 blossom blossom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | trembling's dress | | | trembling's brown hair | | as silk; fine *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | trembling's dress *not said here* | | | | | as the opened leaves on the crown of the tree | tree rules | | 3 | **open** | participle | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cling** | participle | trembling's brown hair *not said here* | a opened chestnut blossom | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blossom=Theme | | 5 | **open** | participle | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **crown** | | | the tree | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/89/) - ↑ back to [The Dryad, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/)