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title: Before her all was dark--dark but for the glimmer of the stars in th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Before her all was dark--dark but for the glimmer of the stars in the pools, and the light that came from her own white feet, stealing out of her black cloak. Who acts: all, light, stars. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, with its dependenc
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 60

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Before her all was dark--dark but for the glimmer of the stars in the pools, and the light that came from her own white feet, stealing out of her black cloak.

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**Who acts:** all, light, stars · **What happens:** be, come, steal, glimmer · **To what, where:** own white feet, black cloak

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, light, stars), 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:pg14241:24:60
# text = Before her all was dark--dark but for the glimmer of the stars in the pools, and the light that came from her own white feet, stealing out of her black cloak.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  | before goodwife | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | the light |  |  | goodwife's own white feet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from foot=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **steal** | gerund | the light *not said here* |  |  | goodwife's black cloak |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cloak=Location |
| 5 | **glimmer** |  | the stars in the pools |  |  |  |  |  | nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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