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title: By this time it was growing dusk, and wax candles in diamond and rub… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time it was growing dusk, and wax candles in diamond and ruby candlesticks were beginning to light themselves in every room. Who acts: room, wax candles. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 77

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By this time it was growing dusk, and wax candles in diamond and ruby candlesticks were beginning to light themselves in every room.

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**Who acts:** room, wax candles · **What happens:** grow, begin, light · **To what, where:** time, candles, room

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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 (room, wax candles), 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:pg503:15:77
# text = By this time it was growing dusk, and wax candles in diamond and ruby candlesticks were beginning to light themselves in every room.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	candlesticks	candlestick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · progressive | room | this time *not said here* |  |  | dusk |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past · progressive | wax candles in diamond and ruby candlesticks |  |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **light** | to-infinitive | wax candles in diamond and ruby candlesticks *not said here* | candles *= candle* |  | every room |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Product |

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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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