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title: She put on her Rosette’s prettiest frock, and covered her with diamo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She put on her Rosette’s prettiest frock, and covered her with diamonds from head to foot. Who acts: Rosette. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 149

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She put on her Rosette’s prettiest frock, and covered her with diamonds from head to foot.

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**Who acts:** Rosette · **What happens:** put, cover · **To what, where:** prettiest frock, Rosette, head

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosette), 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:pg540:11:149
# text = She put on her Rosette’s prettiest frock, and covered her with diamonds from head to foot.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Rosette	rosette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Rosette |  |  | Rosette's Rosette's prettiest frock |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on frock=Destination |
| 2 | **cover** | past | Rosette *not said here* |  | Rosette | head |  | with diamonds; to foot | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with diamond=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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