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title: Rings, crowns, girdles, necklaces--all made of wonderful stones; and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Rings, crowns, girdles, necklaces--all made of wonderful stones; and they shone with such brilliance that not only the stepmother and her daughter but all the people round came running to see if the house was on fire. Who acts: necklaces, such brilliance, house. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book»
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 21

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Rings, crowns, girdles, necklaces--all made of wonderful stones; and they shone with such brilliance that not only the stepmother and her daughter but all the people round came running to see if the house was on fire.

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**Who acts:** necklaces, such brilliance, house · **What happens:** make, shine, come, run, see, be · **To what, where:** fire

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (necklaces, such brilliance, house), 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:pg3027:11:21
# text = Rings, crowns, girdles, necklaces--all made of wonderful stones; and they shone with such brilliance that not only the stepmother and her daughter but all the people round came running to see if the house was on fire.
1	Rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	girdles	girdle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	necklaces	necklace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	brilliance	brilliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
33	round	round	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
35	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **shine** | past | necklaces *= necklace* |  |  |  |  | with such brilliance | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with brilliance=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | such brilliance |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | such brilliance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | such brilliance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the house |  |  | fire |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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