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title: The moon shone brilliantly, and the white pebbles which lay before t… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon shone brilliantly, and the white pebbles which lay before the door seemed like silver pieces, they glittered so brightly. Who acts: moon, white pebbles, pebbles. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 13

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The moon shone brilliantly, and the white pebbles which lay before the door seemed like silver pieces, they glittered so brightly.

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**Who acts:** moon, white pebbles, pebbles · **What happens:** shine, lay, seem, glitter · **To what, where:** door

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, white pebbles, pebbles), 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:pg11027:8:13
# text = The moon shone brilliantly, and the white pebbles which lay before the door seemed like silver pieces, they glittered so brightly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the moon |  |  |  |  | brilliantly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | present | the white pebbles |  |  | the door |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before door=Destination |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the white pebbles |  |  |  |  | like silver pieces | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **glitter** | past | pebbles *= pebble* |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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