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title: The pink and white of her face reminded you of the shells of her pal… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The pink and white of her face reminded you of the shells of her palace, while her long black hair was intertwined with strings of coral, and her dress of green silk seemed formed out of the sea. Who acts: face. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 8

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The pink and white of her face reminded you of the shells of her palace, while her long black hair was intertwined with strings of coral, and her dress of green silk seemed formed out of the sea.

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**Who acts:** face · **What happens:** remind, intertwine, form · **To what, where:** you, long black hair, pink, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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:pg3454:34:8
# text = The pink and white of her face reminded you of the shells of her palace, while her long black hair was intertwined with strings of coral, and her dress of green silk seemed formed out of the sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reminded	remind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	intertwined	intertwine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remind** *speech: other* | past | Groac’h's face |  | you |  |  | of the shells of Groac’h's palace | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of shell=Topic |
| 2 | **intertwine** | past · passive |  | Groac’h's long black hair |  |  |  | with strings of coral | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with string=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **form** | past · passive |  | the pink |  | the sea |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 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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