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title: She put it on with fingers that trembled with joy, and, looking in t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She put it on with fingers that trembled with joy, and, looking in the glass, was struck dumb at her own beauty. Who acts: Dotterine, fingers. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 116

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She put it on with fingers that trembled with joy, and, looking in the glass, was struck dumb at her own beauty.

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**Who acts:** Dotterine, fingers · **What happens:** put on, tremble, look, strike · **To what, where:** dress

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dotterine, fingers), 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:pg641:12:116
# text = She put it on with fingers that trembled with joy, and, looking in the glass, was struck dumb at her own beauty.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
21	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put on** | past | Dotterine | dress |  |  |  | with fingers | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 2 | **tremble** | past | fingers |  |  |  |  | with joy | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in the glass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glass=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | past · passive | Dotterine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Dotterine's own beauty; dumb *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: at beauty=Patient |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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