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title: In her golden hair were pearls and precious stones; you could not se… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In her golden hair were pearls and precious stones; you could not see her waist for her golden girdle; and the golden fringe of her white dress came down over her lily feet. Who acts: pearls, you, golden fringe. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependenc
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 70

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In her golden hair were pearls and precious stones; you could not see her waist for her golden girdle; and the golden fringe of her white dress came down over her lily feet.

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**Who acts:** pearls, you, golden fringe · **What happens:** be, not see, come down · **To what, where:** golden hair, waist, lily feet

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearls, you, golden fringe), 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:pg7439:13:70
# text = In her golden hair were pearls and precious stones; you could not see her waist for her golden girdle; and the golden fringe of her white dress came down over her lily feet.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fringe	fringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | pearls and precious stones |  |  | princess's golden hair |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hair=Location |
| 2 | **not** **see** | could | you | princess's waist |  |  |  | for princess's golden girdle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer waist=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come down** | past | the golden fringe of princess's white dress |  |  | princess's lily feet |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over foot=Initial\_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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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