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title: She took as many of her jewels as she could carry, and three of her… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She took as many of her jewels as she could carry, and three of her most beautiful dresses, one embroidered with stars, one with moons, and the third with suns, all of pure gold. Who acts: Helena. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 17

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She took as many of her jewels as she could carry, and three of her most beautiful dresses, one embroidered with stars, one with moons, and the third with suns, all of pure gold.

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**Who acts:** Helena · **What happens:** take, carry, embroider · **To what, where:** many, three

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena), 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:pg7277:29:17
# text = She took as many of her jewels as she could carry, and three of her most beautiful dresses, one embroidered with stars, one with moons, and the third with suns, all of pure gold.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	_
22	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	appos	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	parataxis	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	suns	sun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Helena | many of Helena's jewels |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | could | Helena |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **embroider** | participle · passive |  | three of Helena's beautiful dresses |  |  |  | with stars | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with star=Theme |

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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 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.

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