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title: So Olwen came, clothed in a robe of flame-coloured silk, and with a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Olwen came, clothed in a robe of flame-coloured silk, and with a collar of ruddy gold, in which were emeralds and rubies, about her neck. Who acts: Olwen. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 50

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So Olwen came, clothed in a robe of flame-coloured silk, and with a collar of ruddy gold, in which were emeralds and rubies, about her neck.

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**Who acts:** Olwen · **What happens:** come, clothe, be · **To what, where:** emeralds

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olwen), 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:pg7885:17:50
# text = So Olwen came, clothed in a robe of flame-coloured silk, and with a collar of ruddy gold, in which were emeralds and rubies, about her neck.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	flame	flame	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	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	26	det	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Olwen |  |  |  |  | with a collar of ruddy gold; about Olwen's neck | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about neck=Location |
| 2 | **clothe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in a robe of coloured silk | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in robe=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | which emeralds and rubies |  |  |  |  | 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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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