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title: "A dress red as a rose from the waist down, and white as snow from t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "A dress red as a rose from the waist down, and white as snow from the waist up; a cape of green on my shoulders; and a hat on my head with a red, a white, and a green feather in it; and shoes for my feet with the toes red, the middle white, and the backs and heels green." A sentence of «Celtic Fair
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 57

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"A dress red as a rose from the waist down, and white as snow from the waist up; a cape of green on my shoulders; and a hat on my head with a red, a white, and a green feather in it; and shoes for my feet with the toes red, the middle white, and the backs and heels green."

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7885:23:57
# text = "A dress red as a rose from the waist down, and white as snow from the waist up; a cape of green on my shoulders; and a hat on my head with a red, a white, and a green feather in it; and shoes for my feet with the toes red, the middle white, and the backs and heels green."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dress	dress	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
38	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
58	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	69	nsubj	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
68	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	conj	_	_
69	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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