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title: So Delicia took off the ugly cap, and shook out all her fair shining… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Delicia took off the ugly cap, and shook out all her fair shining hair, and bathed her hands and face in clear water from the nearest spring till her cheeks were like roses, and when she was adorned with the diamonds and the splendid robe the Fairy had given her, she looked the most beautiful Pri
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 134

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So Delicia took off the ugly cap, and shook out all her fair shining hair, and bathed her hands and face in clear water from the nearest spring till her cheeks were like roses, and when she was adorned with the diamonds and the splendid robe the Fairy had given her, she looked the most beautiful Princess in the world, and the Fairy with great delight cried:

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**Who acts:** Delicia, cheeks, fairy · **What happens:** take off, shake out, shine, bath, be, adorn · **To what, where:** ugly cap, hands, clear water, Delicia, Fairy, beautiful Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Delicia, cheeks, fairy), 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:pg540:22:134
# text = So Delicia took off the ugly cap, and shook out all her fair shining hair, and bathed her hands and face in clear water from the nearest spring till her cheeks were like roses, and when she was adorned with the diamonds and the splendid robe the Fairy had given her, she looked the most beautiful Princess in the world, and the Fairy with great delight cried:
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	all	all	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	bathed	bath	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
31	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	advcl	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
59	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	60	advmod	_	_
60	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	nsubj	_	_
69	with	with	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	_
72	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	72	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | past | Delicia | the ugly cap |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
| 2 | **shake out** | past | Delicia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all Delicia's fair shining hair | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bath** | past | Delicia *not said here* | Delicia's hands and face |  | clear water | spring |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | Delicia's cheeks |  |  |  |  | like roses | tree rules |
| 6 | **adorn** | past · passive |  | Delicia |  |  |  | with the diamonds and the splendid robe | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with diamond=Theme |
| 7 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme |
| 8 | **look** | past | fairy | the beautiful Princess |  | the world |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme princess=Attribute |
| 9 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Fairy with great delight |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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