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title: Six lovely maidens with shining wings drew it by rose-coloured ribbo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Six lovely maidens with shining wings drew it by rose-coloured ribbons, while a whole flight of others, equally beautiful, were holding long garlands of roses crossed above it, so as to form a complete canopy. Who acts: Six lovely maidens. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enc
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 146

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Six lovely maidens with shining wings drew it by rose-coloured ribbons, while a whole flight of others, equally beautiful, were holding long garlands of roses crossed above it, so as to form a complete canopy.

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**Who acts:** Six lovely maidens · **What happens:** shine, draw, hold, cross, form · **To what, where:** trouble, long garlands, roses, complete canopy

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Six lovely maidens), 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:pg7277:8:146
# text = Six lovely maidens with shining wings drew it by rose-coloured ribbons, while a whole flight of others, equally beautiful, were holding long garlands of roses crossed above it, so as to form a complete canopy.
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	above	above	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	canopy	canopy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | Six lovely maidens | trouble |  |  |  | with shining wings; by coloured ribbons; a whole flight of others *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past · progressive | Six lovely maidens *not said here* | long garlands of roses |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garland=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | participle |  | roses *not said here* |  | trouble |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **form** | to-infinitive | Six lovely maidens *not said here* | a complete canopy |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location canopy=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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