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title: It was large, and divided into several streets, all vaulted and shad… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was large, and divided into several streets, all vaulted and shaded from the sun, and yet very light too. Who acts: merchant. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 18

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It was large, and divided into several streets, all vaulted and shaded from the sun, and yet very light too.

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**Who acts:** merchant · **What happens:** be, divide, vault, shade · **To what, where:** several streets

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, 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 (merchant), 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:pg503:49:18
# text = It was large, and divided into several streets, all vaulted and shaded from the sun, and yet very light too.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	vaulted	vault	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shaded	shade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | merchant |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **divide** | participle | merchant *not said here* |  |  | several streets |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **vault** | participle |  | several streets *not said here* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | from the sun | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent from sun=Theme |
| 5 | **be** |  | merchant *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |

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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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