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title: When the shining green silk was ready she caught the sun’s rays and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the shining green silk was ready she caught the sun’s rays and the moon’s beams on the point of her needle and wove them into a pattern such as no man had ever seen. Who acts: shining green silk, Lineik, man, sun. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, pa
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 91

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When the shining green silk was ready she caught the sun’s rays and the moon’s beams on the point of her needle and wove them into a pattern such as no man had ever seen.

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**Who acts:** shining green silk, Lineik, man, sun, moon · **What happens:** shine, be, catch, weave, see, ray · **To what, where:** rays, point, pattern, needle

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shining green silk, Lineik, man, sun), 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:pg2435:23:91
# text = When the shining green silk was ready she caught the sun’s rays and the moon’s beams on the point of her needle and wove them into a pattern such as no man had ever seen.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
22	of	of	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	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	37	mark	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
37	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the shining green silk |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | past | Lineik | the sun's rays and the moon's beams |  | the point of Lineik's needle |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme |
| 4 | **weave** | past | Lineik *not said here* | rays *= ray* |  | a pattern |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into pattern=Product |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | no man | a pattern *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus |
| 6 | **ray** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **beam** |  | the moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **point** |  |  | Lineik's needle |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition 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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