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title: Her golden hair was braided and crowned with myrtle blossoms, and he… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her golden hair was braided and crowned with myrtle blossoms, and her flowing veil sparkled with gems. Who acts: flowing veil. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 27

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Her golden hair was braided and crowned with myrtle blossoms, and her flowing veil sparkled with gems.

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**Who acts:** flowing veil · **What happens:** braid, crown, flow, sparkle · **To what, where:** golden hair

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowing veil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:2827`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:32:27
# text = Her golden hair was braided and crowned with myrtle blossoms, and her flowing veil sparkled with gems.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	braided	braid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	amod	_	_
15	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **braid** | past · passive |  | sun's golden hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **crown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with myrtle blossoms | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blossom=Theme |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sparkle** | past | sun's flowing veil |  |  |  |  | with gems | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gem=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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