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title: The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies. Who acts: moon, white pebbles. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 15

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The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies.

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

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. 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), 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:pg2591:20:15
# text = The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies.
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	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	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	3	obl	_	_
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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | the white pebbles |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | present | the white pebbles |  |  | front of the house |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in front=Destination |
| 3 | **glitter** | participle |  | the house *not said here* |  |  |  | like real silver pennies | 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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