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title: And because it was more difficult for beautiful women to pass unheed… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And because it was more difficult for beautiful women to pass unheeded than for others, she bade her fetch a wooden helmet out of the next room, and put it on her head, and pull it low down over her brows, so that nearly the whole of her face should lie in its shadow. Who acts: beautiful women, girl
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 13

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And because it was more difficult for beautiful women to pass unheeded than for others, she bade her fetch a wooden helmet out of the next room, and put it on her head, and pull it low down over her brows, so that nearly the whole of her face should lie in its shadow.

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**Who acts:** beautiful women, girl, whole, world · **What happens:** be, pass, bade, fetch, put, pull · **To what, where:** daughter, wooden helmet, next room, helmet, head, brows

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful women, girl, whole, world), 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:pg641:31:13
# text = And because it was more difficult for beautiful women to pass unheeded than for others, she bade her fetch a wooden helmet out of the next room, and put it on her head, and pull it low down over her brows, so that nearly the whole of her face should lie in its shadow.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	unheeded	unheeded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
41	down	down	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
42	over	over	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	brows	brow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	50	mark	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	fixed	_	_
48	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	nsubj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | beautiful women |  |  |  |  | unheeded *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bade** | past | girl | daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fetch** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | a wooden helmet |  | the next room |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | helmet |  | girl's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=Destination |
| 6 | **pull** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | helmet |  | girl's brows |  | down *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **lie** | should | the whole |  |  | world's shadow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shadow=Location |
| 8 | **shadow** |  | world |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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