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title: While they were talking the night fell, and then, to their great sur… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: While they were talking the night fell, and then, to their great surprise, wonderful colored lights began to shine in all directions, and splendid fireworks blazed out before them; all the forest was illuminated by them, and even felt pleasantly warm, though it had been bitterly cold before. Who act
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 10

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While they were talking the night fell, and then, to their great surprise, wonderful colored lights began to shine in all directions, and splendid fireworks blazed out before them; all the forest was illuminated by them, and even felt pleasantly warm, though it had been bitterly cold before.

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**Who acts:** possessions, night, wonderful colored lights, splendid fireworks, forest · **What happens:** talk, fall, begin, shine, blaze out, illuminate · **To what, where:** directions, forest

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (possessions, night, wonderful colored lights, splendid fireworks), 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:pg503:15:10
# text = While they were talking the night fell, and then, to their great surprise, wonderful colored lights began to shine in all directions, and splendid fireworks blazed out before them; all the forest was illuminated by them, and even felt pleasantly warm, though it had been bitterly cold before.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	colored	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	even	even	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
46	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
52	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	54	cop	_	_
53	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	_
55	before	before	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past · progressive | possessions *= possession* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the night |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | wonderful colored lights |  |  |  | then | to possessions's great surprise | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **shine** | to-infinitive | wonderful colored lights *not said here* |  |  | all directions |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |
| 5 | **blaze out** | participle | splendid fireworks |  |  |  | before possessions *= possession* |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location |
| 6 | **illuminate** | past · passive | possessions *= possession* | all forest |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 7 | **feel** | past | the night *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pleasantly, warm *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is** | past · perfect | forest |  |  |  |  | before, bitterly, cold *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **surprise** |  | possessions *= possession* |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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