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title: The green silk dress waved in large folds, but did not entirely hide… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The green silk dress waved in large folds, but did not entirely hide the pretty foot and ankle. Who acts: green silk dress. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 64

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The green silk dress waved in large folds, but did not entirely hide the pretty foot and ankle.

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**Who acts:** green silk dress · **What happens:** wave, not hide · **To what, where:** green silk dress, pretty foot

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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 (green silk dress), 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:pg27200:26:64
# text = The green silk dress waved in large folds, but did not entirely hide the pretty foot and ankle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	waved	wave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ankle	ankle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | participle |  | the green silk dress *not said here* |  |  |  | in large folds | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fold=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **hide** | past · do-support | the green silk dress | the pretty foot and ankle |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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