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title: But Laptitza, the youngest, with a skin as white as the foam on the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Laptitza, the youngest, with a skin as white as the foam on the milk, and with hair as soft as the finest lamb’s wool, was as beautiful as both her sisters put together--as beautiful as she alone could be. Who acts: youngest. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With th
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 5

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But Laptitza, the youngest, with a skin as white as the foam on the milk, and with hair as soft as the finest lamb’s wool, was as beautiful as both her sisters put together--as beautiful as she alone could be.

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**Who acts:** youngest · **What happens:** be, put together

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest), 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:pg641:35:5
# text = But Laptitza, the youngest, with a skin as white as the foam on the milk, and with hair as soft as the finest lamb’s wool, was as beautiful as both her sisters put together--as beautiful as she alone could be.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Laptitza	Laptitza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc:preconj	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
39	together	together	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	parataxis	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with hair; as Laptitza's sisters; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put together** | past | the youngest |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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