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title: The glittering grotto described to him by the maidens had completely… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The glittering grotto described to him by the maidens had completely vanished, and so had the marble bath, the bower of jasmine; instead, all was a tangle of flowers, as it had been of old. Who acts: glittering grotto, bath. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 26

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The glittering grotto described to him by the maidens had completely vanished, and so had the marble bath, the bower of jasmine; instead, all was a tangle of flowers, as it had been of old.

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**Who acts:** glittering grotto, bath · **What happens:** glitter, describe, vanish, have, be · **To what, where:** glittering grotto, mistake, marble bath

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glittering grotto, bath), 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:pg3282:31:26
# text = The glittering grotto described to him by the maidens had completely vanished, and so had the marble bath, the bower of jasmine; instead, all was a tangle of flowers, as it had been of old.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	grotto	grotto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bower	bower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tangle	tangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	cop	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **describe** | participle |  | the glittering grotto *not said here* | mistake |  |  | by the maidens | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to he=be' |
| 3 | **vanish** | past · perfect | the glittering grotto |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | the glittering grotto *not said here* | the marble bath |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | instead all tangle; of flowers | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect | bath |  |  |  |  | old *property* | 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 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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