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title: Great attention, too, was paid to her personal appearance, and her s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Great attention, too, was paid to her personal appearance, and her skin shone like satin, while her teeth were as white as pearls, and beautifully pointed. Who acts: teeth. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 32

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Great attention, too, was paid to her personal appearance, and her skin shone like satin, while her teeth were as white as pearls, and beautifully pointed.

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**Who acts:** teeth · **What happens:** pay, shine, be, point · **To what, where:** Great attention, skin

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teeth), 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:pg3282:17:32
# text = Great attention, too, was paid to her personal appearance, and her skin shone like satin, while her teeth were as white as pearls, and beautifully pointed.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · passive |  | Great attention |  |  |  | to lady's personal appearance | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **shine** | participle · passive |  | lady's skin |  |  |  | like satin | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | lady's teeth |  |  |  |  | as pearls; white *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **point** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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