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title: The moon shone so brightly that they had no difficulty in seeing the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon shone so brightly that they had no difficulty in seeing the marked trees. Who acts: moon, maidens, difficulty. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 42

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The moon shone so brightly that they had no difficulty in seeing the marked trees.

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**Who acts:** moon, maidens, difficulty · **What happens:** shine, have, see, mark · **To what, where:** difficulty, marked trees

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, maidens, difficulty), 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:pg503:26:42
# text = The moon shone so brightly that they had no difficulty in seeing the marked trees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the moon |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | maidens *= maiden* | no difficulty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | no difficulty *not said here* | the marked trees |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 4 | **mark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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