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title: She wore a red satin smock, and, over this, a cloak of green silk ou… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She wore a red satin smock, and, over this, a cloak of green silk out of which long fringes of gold swung and sparkled, and she had light sandals of white bronze on her thin, shapely feet. Who acts: One. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 23

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She wore a red satin smock, and, over this, a cloak of green silk out of which long fringes of gold swung and sparkled, and she had light sandals of white bronze on her thin, shapely feet.

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** wear, swing, sparkle, have · **To what, where:** red satin smock, this, long fringes, light sandals, thin shapely feet

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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:pg2892:62:23
# text = She wore a red satin smock, and, over this, a cloak of green silk out of which long fringes of gold swung and sparkled, and she had light sandals of white bronze on her thin, shapely feet.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	smock	smock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fringes	fringe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	swung	swing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
39	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	shapely	shapely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | One | a red satin smock |  | this |  | a cloak of green silk  which long fringes of gold *obl* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent smock=Source |
| 2 | **swing** | participle |  | which long fringes of gold *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **sparkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | One | light sandals of white bronze |  | One's thin shapely feet |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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