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title: She was ten times more beautiful than before, and wore a magnificent… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was ten times more beautiful than before, and wore a magnificent pale yellow robe, sparkling with jewels. Who acts: crab. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 116

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She was ten times more beautiful than before, and wore a magnificent pale yellow robe, sparkling with jewels.

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**Who acts:** crab · **What happens:** be, wear, sparkle · **To what, where:** magnificent pale yellow robe

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab), 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:pg503:26:116
# text = She was ten times more beautiful than before, and wore a magnificent pale yellow robe, sparkling with jewels.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | crab |  |  |  | time | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | past |  | a magnificent pale yellow robe |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
| 3 | **sparkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with jewels | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with jewel=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 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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