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title: Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds, And golden elf-locks fly ab… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds, And golden elf-locks fly above; Her eyes are bright as diamonds And bluer than the skies above. Who acts: golden elf locks, eyes. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 301

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Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds, And golden elf-locks fly above; Her eyes are bright as diamonds And bluer than the skies above.

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**Who acts:** golden elf locks, eyes · **What happens:** bind, fly, be · **To what, where:** brows

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden elf locks, eyes), 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:pg2781:10:301
# text = Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds, And golden elf-locks fly above; Her eyes are bright as diamonds And bluer than the skies above.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brows	brow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	bracken	bracken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	fronds	frond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	above	above	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bluer	blue	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	above	above	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | present · passive |  | Comes's brows |  |  |  | with bracken fronds | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with frond=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **fly** | present | golden elf locks |  |  |  |  | above *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Comes's eyes |  |  |  |  | as diamonds; bright *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Comes's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the skies; above *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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