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title: So deft was she with her fingers that she could dress her hair with… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: So deft was she with her fingers that she could dress her hair with oil and afterwards press the hair so skilfully that not a drop of oil remained in it. Who acts: townspeople, deft fingers. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 6

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So deft was she with her fingers that she could dress her hair with oil and afterwards press the hair so skilfully that not a drop of oil remained in it.

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**Who acts:** townspeople, deft fingers · **What happens:** be, dress, press, remain · **To what, where:** hair, drop, oil

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (townspeople, deft fingers), 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:pg76982:19:6
# text = So deft was she with her fingers that she could dress her hair with oil and afterwards press the hair so skilfully that not a drop of oil remained in it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	deft	deft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	press	press	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	skilfully	skilfully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | townspeople |  |  |  |  | with townspeople's deft fingers | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | could | townspeople's deft fingers | townspeople's hair |  |  |  | with oil; townspeople *nsubj* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 3 | **press** | infinitive | townspeople's deft fingers *not said here* | the hair |  |  |  | afterwards, skilfully *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 4 | **remain** | participle · passive |  | a drop of oil |  | oil |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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