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title: It was getting dark, and hundreds of coloured hanging lamps were lit… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was getting dark, and hundreds of coloured hanging lamps were lit to turn night into day. Who acts: palace. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 5

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It was getting dark, and hundreds of coloured hanging lamps were lit to turn night into day.

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**Who acts:** palace · **What happens:** get, lit, turn · **To what, where:** hundreds

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace), 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:pg2435:35:5
# text = It was getting dark, and hundreds of coloured hanging lamps were lit to turn night into day.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	hanging	hanging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · progressive | palace |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lit** | past · passive |  | hundreds of coloured hanging lamps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day; night |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:** «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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