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title: She had only the dress of a countrywoman on her as she sat sewing at… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had only the dress of a countrywoman on her as she sat sewing at the window, but that did not hide her beauty, and he was greatly puzzled after he had a good look, just as a body is puzzled to know whether something happened to him when he was young or if he only dreamed it. Who acts: girl, that
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 87

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She had only the dress of a countrywoman on her as she sat sewing at the window, but that did not hide her beauty, and he was greatly puzzled after he had a good look, just as a body is puzzled to know whether something happened to him when he was young or if he only dreamed it.

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**Who acts:** girl, that, story, something · **What happens:** have, sit, sew, not hide, puzzle, know · **To what, where:** dress, window, beauty, story, good look, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, that, story, something), 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:pg3454:13:87
# text = She had only the dress of a countrywoman on her as she sat sewing at the window, but that did not hide her beauty, and he was greatly puzzled after he had a good look, just as a body is puzzled to know whether something happened to him when he was young or if he only dreamed it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	countrywoman	countrywoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	parataxis	_	_
32	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	just	just	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	49	nsubj	_	_
49	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	ccomp	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	_
52	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	55	advmod	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	advcl	_	_
56	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
57	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
58	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
59	only	only	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	conj	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | girl | the dress of a countrywoman |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sew** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  | the window |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at window=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **hide** | past · do-support | that | girl's beauty |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient |
| 5 | **puzzle** | past · passive |  | story |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 6 | **have** | past | story | a good look |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
| 7 | **puzzle** | present · passive |  | a body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **know** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **happen** | past | something |  | story |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **is** | past | story |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **dream** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | story | body |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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