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title: Thus he grew so rich that very soon he had his silver pipes covered… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus he grew so rich that very soon he had his silver pipes covered with gold, so that they glistened in the light of the sun or the fire. Who acts: Tiidu, pipes. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 82

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Thus he grew so rich that very soon he had his silver pipes covered with gold, so that they glistened in the light of the sun or the fire.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, pipes · **What happens:** grow, cover, glisten, light · **To what, where:** light, sun

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, pipes), 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:pg2435:11:82
# text = Thus he grew so rich that very soon he had his silver pipes covered with gold, so that they glistened in the light of the sun or the fire.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	glistened	glisten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Tiidu |  |  |  |  | rich, thus *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | past · perfect | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |
| 3 | **glisten** | past | pipes *= pipe* |  |  | the light of the sun or the fire |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |
| 4 | **light** |  |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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