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title: When Trembling was dressed, the henwife put the honey-bird on her ri… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Trembling was dressed, the henwife put the honey-bird on her right shoulder and the honey-finger on her left, and, placing the hat on her head, clipped a few hairs from one lock and a few from another with her scissors, and that moment the most beautiful golden hair was flowing down over the gi
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 59

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When Trembling was dressed, the henwife put the honey-bird on her right shoulder and the honey-finger on her left, and, placing the hat on her head, clipped a few hairs from one lock and a few from another with her scissors, and that moment the most beautiful golden hair was flowing down over the girl's shoulders.

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**Who acts:** henwife, moment · **What happens:** tremble, dress, put, place, clip, flow down · **To what, where:** honey bird, right shoulder, hat, head, few hairs, one lock

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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: who acts (henwife, moment), 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:pg7885:23:59
# text = When Trembling was dressed, the henwife put the honey-bird on her right shoulder and the honey-finger on her left, and, placing the hat on her head, clipped a few hairs from one lock and a few from another with her scissors, and that moment the most beautiful golden hair was flowing down over the girl's shoulders.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	henwife	henwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	clipped	clip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	obl	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
52	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	det	_	_
53	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
55	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	56	advmod	_	_
56	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
59	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
61	down	down	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
62	over	over	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	's	's	PART	POS	_	64	case	_	_
66	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | gerund | the henwife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | past · passive | the henwife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **put** | past | the henwife | the honey bird |  | henwife's right shoulder and the honey finger |  | on henwife's left | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 4 | **place** | gerund | the henwife *not said here* | the hat |  | henwife's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme on head=Destination |
| 5 | **clip** | past |  | a few hairs |  | one lock |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Patient from lock=Source |
| 6 | **flow down** | past · progressive | that moment |  |  | the girl's shoulders |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=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:** «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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