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title: Upon her head she wore a splendid crown, her lovely hair waved nearl… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon her head she wore a splendid crown, her lovely hair waved nearly to her feet, and her stately figure could easily be distinguished among all the ladies who attended her. Who acts: Princess, ladies. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, with its dependency
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 26

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Upon her head she wore a splendid crown, her lovely hair waved nearly to her feet, and her stately figure could easily be distinguished among all the ladies who attended her.

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**Who acts:** Princess, ladies · **What happens:** wear, wave, distinguish, attend, figure · **To what, where:** splendid crown, lovely hair, feet, stately figure, Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (Princess, ladies), 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:pg503:6:26
# text = Upon her head she wore a splendid crown, her lovely hair waved nearly to her feet, and her stately figure could easily be distinguished among all the ladies who attended her.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	waved	wave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
27	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | Princess | a splendid crown |  |  |  | upon Princess's head | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 2 | **wave** | participle |  | Princess's lovely hair *not said here* | Princess's feet |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to foot=Recipient |
| 3 | **distinguish** | could · passive |  | Princess's stately figure |  |  |  | among all ladies; easily *property* | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **attend** | past | all ladies |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Goal |
| 5 | **figure** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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