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title: The lady in the golden dress appeared to him once more, holding in o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lady in the golden dress appeared to him once more, holding in one hand two young laurel trees, a cherry laurel and a rose laurel, and in the other hand a little golden rake, a little golden bucket, and a silken towel. Who acts: lady. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 41

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The lady in the golden dress appeared to him once more, holding in one hand two young laurel trees, a cherry laurel and a rose laurel, and in the other hand a little golden rake, a little golden bucket, and a silken towel.

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** appear, hold · **To what, where:** Gazer, other hand, two young laurel trees, one hand

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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:pg540:2:41
# text = The lady in the golden dress appeared to him once more, holding in one hand two young laurel trees, a cherry laurel and a rose laurel, and in the other hand a little golden rake, a little golden bucket, and a silken towel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	rake	rake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the lady in the golden dress |  | Gazer | the other hand |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | the lady in the golden dress *not said here* | two young laurel trees  a cherry laurel and a rose laurel |  | one hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in hand=Location |

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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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