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title: Her hair was like shining gold, and her eyes bright as the eyes of a… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her hair was like shining gold, and her eyes bright as the eyes of a falcon, and the eyebrows above them fine and straight, her nose shapely, her cheeks well rounded, fair as a fleur-de-lys, but with delicate colour of rose; her mouth small and delicate with a chin suitably fashioned, and her should
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 46

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Her hair was like shining gold, and her eyes bright as the eyes of a falcon, and the eyebrows above them fine and straight, her nose shapely, her cheeks well rounded, fair as a fleur-de-lys, but with delicate colour of rose; her mouth small and delicate with a chin suitably fashioned, and her shoulders straight and her bosom of a most dainty curve.

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**Who acts:** hair, shoulders · **What happens:** shine, round, bosom · **To what, where:** gold, cheeks

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, shoulders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:19:46
# text = Her hair was like shining gold, and her eyes bright as the eyes of a falcon, and the eyebrows above them fine and straight, her nose shapely, her cheeks well rounded, fair as a fleur-de-lys, but with delicate colour of rose; her mouth small and delicate with a chin suitably fashioned, and her shoulders straight and her bosom of a most dainty curve.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
30	shapely	shapely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
34	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
35	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
40	fleur	fleur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	lys	ly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	conj	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
61	suitably	suitably	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
65	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	70	nsubj	_	_
67	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
69	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	70	nmod:poss	_	_
70	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	parataxis	_	_
71	of	of	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
72	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
73	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	74	advmod	_	_
74	dainty	dainty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	75	amod	_	_
75	curve	curve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past · progressive | Floripas's hair | gold |  |  |  | Floripas's cheeks *obl*; delicate colour of rose *conj* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 2 | **round** | participle |  | Floripas's cheeks *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bosom** |  | Floripas's shoulders |  |  |  |  | of a dainty curve; Floripas *nmod:poss*; straight *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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