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title: The diamonds glittered so on all sides that they were delighted with… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The diamonds glittered so on all sides that they were delighted with the sight and picked up the finest. Who acts: diamonds. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 29

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The diamonds glittered so on all sides that they were delighted with the sight and picked up the finest.

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**Who acts:** diamonds · **What happens:** glitter, be, pick up · **To what, where:** sides, finest

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (diamonds), 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:pg2591:56:29
# text = The diamonds glittered so on all sides that they were delighted with the sight and picked up the finest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | past | the diamonds |  |  | all sides |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | diamonds *= diamond* |  |  |  |  | with the sight; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pick up** | participle | diamonds *= diamond* *not said here* | the finest |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Topic |

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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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