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title: But the moment they went inside they were struck dumb with rage at t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the moment they went inside they were struck dumb with rage at the splendour of everything, and their faces grew white and cold with fury when they saw the dress which Hábogi had prepared for his bride—a dress that glittered like sunbeams dancing upon ice. Who acts: moment, faces, sisters, dress
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 33

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But the moment they went inside they were struck dumb with rage at the splendour of everything, and their faces grew white and cold with fury when they saw the dress which Hábogi had prepared for his bride—a dress that glittered like sunbeams dancing upon ice.

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**Who acts:** moment, faces, sisters, dress, sunbeams · **What happens:** go, strike, grow, see, prepare, glitter · **To what, where:** sisters, splendour, dress, ice

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (moment, faces, sisters, dress), 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:pg3282:14:33
# text = But the moment they went inside they were struck dumb with rage at the splendour of everything, and their faces grew white and cold with fury when they saw the dress which Hábogi had prepared for his bride—a dress that glittered like sunbeams dancing upon ice.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
47	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	acl	_	_
48	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the moment |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | past · passive |  | sisters *= sister* |  | the splendour of everything |  | with rage; dumb *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rage=Instrument |
| 3 | **grow** | past | sisters's faces |  |  |  |  | with fury; white *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | sisters *= sister* | the dress |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus |
| 5 | **prepare** | past · perfect · passive |  | the dress |  |  |  | for Hábogi's bride and a dress | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for bride=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **glitter** | past | a dress |  |  |  |  | like sunbeams | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **dance** | gerund | sunbeams *not said here* |  |  | ice |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ice=Location |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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