---
title: Then the maiden dressed her hair afresh, and made herself look very… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the maiden dressed her hair afresh, and made herself look very neat and smart, and everyone admired and praised her, till by-and-bye it came to the ears of the princess. Who acts: maiden, maid, everyone, hair. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, wit
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/21/67/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/21/) / 67

# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 67

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Then the maiden dressed her hair afresh, and made herself look very neat and smart, and everyone admired and praised her, till by-and-bye it came to the ears of the princess.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** maiden, maid, everyone, hair · **What happens:** dress, make, look, admire, praise, come · **To what, where:** hair, maid, ears

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, maid, everyone, hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg5615:21:67
# text = Then the maiden dressed her hair afresh, and made herself look very neat and smart, and everyone admired and praised her, till by-and-bye it came to the ears of the princess.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	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	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	afresh	afresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
20	admired	admire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	bye	bye	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | the maiden | maid's hair |  |  | then | afresh *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | the maiden *not said here* | maid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | neat *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **admire** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **praise** | past | everyone *not said here* | maid |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | hair |  |  | the ears of the princess |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial\_Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/21/66/)
- next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/21/68/)
- ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/21/)