--- title: 'Shut your eyes, then,' said the stone; and he shut them, and when h… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'Shut your eyes, then,' said the stone; and he shut them, and when he opened them again there was the palace, more beautiful than anything he could have imagined, the fires throwing a soft pink glow over the ice. Who acts: ice, fires. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, pa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/) / 36 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 36 'Shut your eyes, then,' said the stone; and he shut them, and when he opened them again there was the palace, more beautiful than anything he could have imagined, the fires throwing a soft pink glow over the ice. **Who acts:** ice, fires · **What happens:** shut, say, open, be, imagine, throw · **To what, where:** eyes, stone, palace, soft pink glow, ice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ice, fires), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:14:36 # text = 'Shut your eyes, then,' said the stone; and he shut them, and when he opened them again there was the palace, more beautiful than anything he could have imagined, the fires throwing a soft pink glow over the ice. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Shut shut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 shut shut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 30 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 31 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 30 obl _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux _ _ 36 imagined imagine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 40 throwing throw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 glow glow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 45 over over ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shut** | infinitive | | your eyes | | | then | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the stone | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **shut** | past | ice | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **open** | past | ice | eyes *= eye* | | | again | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | | the palace and the fires | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **imagine** | could · perfect | ice | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **throw** | gerund | the fires *not said here* | a soft pink glow | | the ice | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glow=Theme over ice=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/37/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/)