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title: She grew tall and straight and pretty, with eyes like shining stars,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She grew tall and straight and pretty, with eyes like shining stars, and a skin as white as milk. Who acts: Princess, eyes. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 65

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She grew tall and straight and pretty, with eyes like shining stars, and a skin as white as milk.

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**Who acts:** Princess, eyes · **What happens:** grow, shine · **To what, where:** skin, stars

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, eyes), 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:pg540:35:65
# text = She grew tall and straight and pretty, with eyes like shining stars, and a skin as white as milk.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Princess | a skin |  |  |  | with eyes; tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund | eyes *not said here* | stars |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=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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