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title: She was leaning upon the arm of a most beautiful young girl, who wor… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was leaning upon the arm of a most beautiful young girl, who wore chains of gold on her wrists and was evidently her slave. Who acts: ugliness, beautiful young girl. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 21

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She was leaning upon the arm of a most beautiful young girl, who wore chains of gold on her wrists and was evidently her slave.

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**Who acts:** ugliness, beautiful young girl · **What happens:** lean, wear, be · **To what, where:** arm, chains, wrists, slave

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ugliness, beautiful young girl), 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:pg503:31:21
# text = She was leaning upon the arm of a most beautiful young girl, who wore chains of gold on her wrists and was evidently her slave.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wrists	wrist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | past · progressive | ugliness |  |  | the arm of a beautiful young girl |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon arm=Location |
| 2 | **wear** | past | a beautiful young girl | chains of gold |  | ugliness's wrists |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chain=Source |
| 3 | **is a** | past | ugliness *not said here* | ugliness's slave |  |  |  | evidently *property* | tree rules |

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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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