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title: Graciosa set out, wearing her little cap and wooden shoes and the ol… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Graciosa set out, wearing her little cap and wooden shoes and the old cotton frock, but even in this disguise she was so beautiful that all the passers-by wondered who she could be. Who acts: Graciosa, disguise. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, with i
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 20

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Graciosa set out, wearing her little cap and wooden shoes and the old cotton frock, but even in this disguise she was so beautiful that all the passers-by wondered who she could be.

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**Who acts:** Graciosa, disguise · **What happens:** set out, wear, be, wonder · **To what, where:** little cap, passers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, disguise), 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:pg540:25:20
# text = Graciosa set out, wearing her little cap and wooden shoes and the old cotton frock, but even in this disguise she was so beautiful that all the passers-by wondered who she could be.
1	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	passers	passer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | Graciosa |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | Graciosa *not said here* | Graciosa's little cap and wooden shoes and the old cotton frock |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | this disguise |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | participle · passive |  | all passers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **can** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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