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title: Round her delicate foot clung the silken boot, chestnut brown in col… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Round her delicate foot clung the silken boot, chestnut brown in color, like the ribbon that floated from her hair down upon her bare shoulders. Who acts: ribbon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 63

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Round her delicate foot clung the silken boot, chestnut brown in color, like the ribbon that floated from her hair down upon her bare shoulders.

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**Who acts:** ribbon · **What happens:** cling, float · **To what, where:** silken boot, color, hair

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ribbon), 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:pg27200:26:63
# text = Round her delicate foot clung the silken boot, chestnut brown in color, like the ribbon that floated from her hair down upon her bare shoulders.
1	Round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boot	boot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	upon	upon	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	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cling** | past |  | the silken boot and chestnut |  | color |  | round portal's delicate foot; like the ribbon | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boot=Theme |
| 2 | **float** | past | the ribbon |  |  | portal's hair |  | upon portal's bare shoulders; down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hair=Source upon shoulder=Trajectory |

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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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