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title: She had on a great golden crown which was three yards high and set w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had on a great golden crown which was three yards high and set with brilliants and sparkling gems. Who acts: wife, great golden crown. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 133

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She had on a great golden crown which was three yards high and set with brilliants and sparkling gems.

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**Who acts:** wife, great golden crown · **What happens:** have, be, set · **To what, where:** great golden crown

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, great golden crown), 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:pg7277:54:133
# text = She had on a great golden crown which was three yards high and set with brilliants and sparkling gems.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	brilliants	brilliant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | wife |  |  | a great golden crown |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | a great golden crown |  |  |  |  | three yards *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | a great golden crown *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with brilliants and sparkling gems | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with brilliant=Instrument |

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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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