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title: It was of green and gold brocade, embroidered with pearls and rubies… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was of green and gold brocade, embroidered with pearls and rubies, and her long golden hair was tied back with strings of diamonds and emeralds, and crowned with flowers. Who acts: Fairy. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, with its dependency tree 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 31

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It was of green and gold brocade, embroidered with pearls and rubies, and her long golden hair was tied back with strings of diamonds and emeralds, and crowned with flowers.

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**Who acts:** Fairy · **What happens:** be, embroider, tie back, crown · **To what, where:** green brocade, long golden hair

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (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:pg540:5:31
# text = It was of green and gold brocade, embroidered with pearls and rubies, and her long golden hair was tied back with strings of diamonds and emeralds, and crowned with flowers.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Fairy |  |  |  |  | of green brocade | tree rules |
| 2 | **embroider** | participle |  | green brocade *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls and rubies | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |
| 3 | **tie back** | past · passive |  | toad's long golden hair |  |  |  | with strings of diamonds and emeralds | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with string=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **crown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with flowers | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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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