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title: Her arms and hands were like the lime, her mouth as red as a strawbe… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Her arms and hands were like the lime, her mouth as red as a strawberry when it is ripe, her foot was as small and as light as another one's hand, her form was smooth and slender, and her hair was falling down from her head in buckles of gold. Who acts: arms, strawberry, foot, form. A sentence of «C
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 92

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Her arms and hands were like the lime, her mouth as red as a strawberry when it is ripe, her foot was as small and as light as another one's hand, her form was smooth and slender, and her hair was falling down from her head in buckles of gold.

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**Who acts:** arms, strawberry, foot, form, hair, woman · **What happens:** be, fall down, form · **To what, where:** head

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, strawberry, foot, form), 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:pg7885:4:92
# text = Her arms and hands were like the lime, her mouth as red as a strawberry when it is ripe, her foot was as small and as light as another one's hand, her form was smooth and slender, and her hair was falling down from her head in buckles of gold.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
48	down	down	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	buckles	buckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | woman's arms and hands |  |  |  |  | like the lime | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | strawberry |  |  |  |  | ripe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | woman's foot |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | woman's foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as another one's hand | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | woman's form |  |  |  |  | smooth *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | woman's form *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fall down** | past · progressive | woman's hair |  |  | woman's head in buckles of gold |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from head=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **form** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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