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title: Then the nurse dressed her in a robe of pale green and gold brocade,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the nurse dressed her in a robe of pale green and gold brocade, and combed out her long fair hair till it floated round her like a golden mantle, and put on her head a crown of roses and jasmine with emerald leaves. Who acts: nurse, hair. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graci
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 48

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Then the nurse dressed her in a robe of pale green and gold brocade, and combed out her long fair hair till it floated round her like a golden mantle, and put on her head a crown of roses and jasmine with emerald leaves.

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**Who acts:** nurse, hair · **What happens:** dress, comb out, float, put, crown · **To what, where:** Princess, robe, long fair hair, crown, head, roses

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, hair), 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:pg540:23:48
# text = Then the nurse dressed her in a robe of pale green and gold brocade, and combed out her long fair hair till it floated round her like a golden mantle, and put on her head a crown of roses and jasmine with emerald leaves.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	combed	comb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	round	round	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | the nurse | Princess |  | a robe of pale green brocade | then |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 2 | **comb out** | past | the nurse *not said here* | nurse's long fair hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 3 | **float** | past | hair |  |  |  |  | round nurse; like a golden mantle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round she=Trajectory |
| 4 | **put** | participle | the nurse *not said here* | a crown of roses and jasmine with emerald leaves |  | nurse's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme on head=Destination |
| 5 | **crown** |  |  | roses and jasmine with emerald leaves |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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