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title: The beautiful sunny hair rippled and shone round the dear little fac… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The beautiful sunny hair rippled and shone round the dear little face, which was so soft and sweet. Who acts: dear little face. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 19

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The beautiful sunny hair rippled and shone round the dear little face, which was so soft and sweet.

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**Who acts:** dear little face · **What happens:** ripple, shine, be · **To what, where:** beautiful sunny hair

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear little face), 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:pg5615:9:19
# text = The beautiful sunny hair rippled and shone round the dear little face, which was so soft and sweet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	rippled	ripple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ripple** | participle |  | the beautiful sunny hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | round the dear little face | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the dear little face |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the dear little face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 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.

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