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title: The evening sun shone on the glittering stones, and they glanced and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The evening sun shone on the glittering stones, and they glanced and gleamed so beautifully that the children stood still and gazed on them. Who acts: evening sun, children. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 83

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The evening sun shone on the glittering stones, and they glanced and gleamed so beautifully that the children stood still and gazed on them.

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**Who acts:** evening sun, children · **What happens:** shine, glance, gleam, stand, gaze · **To what, where:** evening sun, glittering stones

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening sun, children), 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:pg503:36:83
# text = The evening sun shone on the glittering stones, and they glanced and gleamed so beautifully that the children stood still and gazed on them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	glittering	glittering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | participle |  | the evening sun *not said here* |  | the glittering stones |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Location |
| 2 | **glance** | past | the evening sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gleam** | past | the evening sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the children |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **gaze** | participle | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on girls *= girl* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=Theme |

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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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