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title: And immediately the Princess’s cotton dress became a magnificent rob… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And immediately the Princess’s cotton dress became a magnificent robe of silver brocade embroidered with carbuncles, and her soft dark hair was encircled by a crown of diamonds, from which floated a clear white veil. Who acts: cotton dress. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 122

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And immediately the Princess’s cotton dress became a magnificent robe of silver brocade embroidered with carbuncles, and her soft dark hair was encircled by a crown of diamonds, from which floated a clear white veil.

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**Who acts:** cotton dress · **What happens:** become, embroider, encircle, float, crown · **To what, where:** magnificent robe, silver brocade, soft dark hair, clear white veil, diamonds

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cotton dress), 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:pg503:22:122
# text = And immediately the Princess’s cotton dress became a magnificent robe of silver brocade embroidered with carbuncles, and her soft dark hair was encircled by a crown of diamonds, from which floated a clear white veil.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	carbuncles	carbuncle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	encircled	encircle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the Princess's cotton dress | a magnificent robe of silver brocade |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **embroider** | participle |  | silver brocade *not said here* |  |  |  | with carbuncles | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with carbuncle=Theme |
| 3 | **encircle** | past · passive |  | Princess's soft dark hair |  |  |  | by a crown of diamonds | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **float** | past |  | a clear white veil |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme |
| 5 | **crown** |  |  | diamonds |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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