--- title: When she was quite dressed in her white silk stockings and little bl… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When she was quite dressed in her white silk stockings and little blue slippers dotted over with carbuncles, she said to her deliverer, ‘Now you must go away, and never come back here, whatever happens. Who acts: Ludovine, you, whatever. 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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 (Ludovine, you, whatever), 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:pg7277:22:60 # text = When she was quite dressed in her white silk stockings and little blue slippers dotted over with carbuncles, she said to her deliverer, ‘Now you must go away, and never come back here, whatever happens. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 ccomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 stockings stocking NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 slippers slipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 15 dotted dot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 over over ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 carbuncles carbuncle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 deliverer deliverer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 36 back back ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress** | past · passive | | Ludovine | | Ludovine's white silk stockings and little blue slippers | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **dot over** | participle | | little blue slippers *not said here* | | | | with carbuncles; over *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with carbuncle=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ludovine | | | | | to Ludovine's deliverer | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to deliverer=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 4 | **go away** | must | you | | | | now | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **come back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | here | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **happen** | present | whatever | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/61/) - ↑ back to [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/)