--- title: She was cut out of paper, but she had on a dress of the finest musli… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She was cut out of paper, but she had on a dress of the finest muslin, with a scarf of narrow blue ribbon round her shoulders, fastened in the middle with a glittering rose made of gold paper, which was as large as her head. Who acts: lady, scarf, gold paper. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, scarf, gold paper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:50:10 # text = She was cut out of paper, but she had on a dress of the finest muslin, with a scarf of narrow blue ribbon round her shoulders, fastened in the middle with a glittering rose made of gold paper, which was as large as her head. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 muslin muslin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 scarf scarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 ribbon ribbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 round round ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 fastened fasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 glittering glittering NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 38 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 xcomp _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 as as ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 47 as as ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut out** | past · passive | | lady | | paper | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | lady | | | a dress of the finest muslin | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fasten** | participle | | a scarf of narrow blue ribbon round lady's shoulders *not said here* | | the middle | | with a glittering | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with glittering=Co-Patient | | 4 | **rise** | past | a scarf of narrow blue ribbon round lady's shoulders | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | participle | a scarf of narrow blue ribbon round lady's shoulders *not said here* | | | | | of gold paper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **is** | past | gold paper | | | | | as lady's head; large *property* | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/11/) - ↑ back to [The Steadfast Tin-soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/)