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title: So she walked first, looking very serious and dignified, and wearing… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she walked first, looking very serious and dignified, and wearing a dress the train of which was at least ten ells long. Who acts: Delicia. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 186

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So she walked first, looking very serious and dignified, and wearing a dress the train of which was at least ten ells long.

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**Who acts:** Delicia · **What happens:** walk, look, wear, be · **To what, where:** dress

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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), 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:pg540:22:186
# text = So she walked first, looking very serious and dignified, and wearing a dress the train of which was at least ten ells long.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dignified	dignified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	nmod	_	_
23	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	ells	ell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Delicia |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | Delicia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wear** | gerund | Delicia *not said here* | a dress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the train; ten ells *obl:unmarked*; long *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 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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