--- title: When everything was ready for the feast, and the bride was dressed i… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When everything was ready for the feast, and the bride was dressed in the most beautiful embroidered dress to be found in Japan, the maids took hold of the helmet to lift it off her head, so that they might do her hair in the latest fashion. Who acts: everything, maids, neighbours. 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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 (everything, maids, neighbours), 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:pg641:31:40 # text = When everything was ready for the feast, and the bride was dressed in the most beautiful embroidered dress to be found in Japan, the maids took hold of the helmet to lift it off her head, so that they might do her hair in the latest fashion. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 17 advmod _ _ 17 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 embroidered embroider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 maids maid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 29 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 off off ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 44 mark _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 latest late ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 50 amod _ _ 50 fashion fashion NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | everything | | | | | for the feast; ready *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **dress** | past · passive | | the bride | | the beautiful embroidered dress | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **embroider** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | Japan | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» | | 5 | **take** | past | the maids | hold of the helmet | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | | 6 | **lift** | to-infinitive | the maids *not said here* | hold | | maid's head | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme off head=Destination | | 7 | **do** | might | neighbours *= neighbour* | maid's hair | | the latest fashion | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality | | 8 | **hold** | | | the helmet | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/41/) - ↑ back to [The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/)