--- title: The girl did as she was bid, and her beauty was so hidden beneath th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The girl did as she was bid, and her beauty was so hidden beneath the wooden cap, which covered up all her hair, that she might have gone through any crowd, and no one would have looked twice at her. Who acts: girl, beauty, wooden cap. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/14/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/) / 14 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 14 The girl did as she was bid, and her beauty was so hidden beneath the wooden cap, which covered up all her hair, that she might have gone through any crowd, and no one would have looked twice at her. **Who acts:** girl, beauty, wooden cap · **What happens:** do, bid, be, cover up, go, look · **To what, where:** girl, crowd, one 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 (girl, beauty, wooden cap), 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:pg641:31:14 # text = The girl did as she was bid, and her beauty was so hidden beneath the wooden cap, which covered up all her hair, that she might have gone through any crowd, and no one would have looked twice at her. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 bid bid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 15 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 all all ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux _ _ 31 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux _ _ 41 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 42 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 41 advmod _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the girl | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bid** | past · passive | | girl | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | girl's beauty | | | | | beneath the wooden cap; hidden *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **cover up** | past | the wooden cap | | | | | all girl's hair | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** | might · perfect | girl | | | any crowd | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through crowd=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **look** | would · perfect · passive | | no one | | | | at girl; twice *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/15/) - ↑ back to [The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/)