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title: She had laid aside all her ugly disguises and wore a white silken ro… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had laid aside all her ugly disguises and wore a white silken robe, and her golden hair shone in the soft lamp-light. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 65

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She had laid aside all her ugly disguises and wore a white silken robe, and her golden hair shone in the soft lamp-light.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** lay, wear, shine · **To what, where:** ugly disguises, white silken robe, golden hair, soft lamp light

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Princess), 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:pg7277:5:65
# text = She had laid aside all her ugly disguises and wore a white silken robe, and her golden hair shone in the soft lamp-light.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	disguises	disguise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past · perfect | Princess | Princess's ugly disguises |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wear** | past | Princess *not said here* | a white silken robe |  |  |  | Princess's golden hair *obl* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | participle |  | Princess's golden hair *not said here* |  | the soft lamp light |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |

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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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