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title: In places the air was darkened by showers of lobster-patties, white… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In places the air was darkened by showers of lobster-patties, white puddings, sausages, tarts, and all sorts of sweetmeats, or with pieces of gold and silver, diamonds and pearls. Who acts: showers. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, with its dependency 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 97

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In places the air was darkened by showers of lobster-patties, white puddings, sausages, tarts, and all sorts of sweetmeats, or with pieces of gold and silver, diamonds and pearls.

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**Who acts:** showers · **What happens:** darken, sort · **To what, where:** air, places, sweetmeats

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (showers), 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:pg503:30:97
# text = In places the air was darkened by showers of lobster-patties, white puddings, sausages, tarts, and all sorts of sweetmeats, or with pieces of gold and silver, diamonds and pearls.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	darkened	darken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	lobster	lobster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	patties	patty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	puddings	pudding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sausages	sausage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **darken** | past · passive | showers of lobster patties and white puddings and sausages and tarts | the air |  | places |  | with pieces of gold and silver and diamonds and pearls; all sorts of sweetmeats *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with piece=Instrument |
| 2 | **sort** |  |  | sweetmeats |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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