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title: One was bright and glittering, and drawn by swans and peacocks, whil… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One was bright and glittering, and drawn by swans and peacocks, while the Fairy who sat in it was beautiful as a sunbeam; but the other was drawn by bats and ravens, and contained a frightful little Dwarf, who was dressed in a snake’s skin, and wore a great toad upon her head for a hood. Who acts: O
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 14

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One was bright and glittering, and drawn by swans and peacocks, while the Fairy who sat in it was beautiful as a sunbeam; but the other was drawn by bats and ravens, and contained a frightful little Dwarf, who was dressed in a snake’s skin, and wore a great toad upon her head for a hood.

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**Who acts:** One, Fairy, bats · **What happens:** be, glitter, draw, sit, contain, dress · **To what, where:** other, frightful little Dwarf, skin, great toad

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Fairy, bats), 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:pg540:5:14
# text = One was bright and glittering, and drawn by swans and peacocks, while the Fairy who sat in it was beautiful as a sunbeam; but the other was drawn by bats and ravens, and contained a frightful little Dwarf, who was dressed in a snake’s skin, and wore a great toad upon her head for a hood.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	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 | One |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | participle | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by swans and peacocks | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | past | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | in Fairy | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | as a sunbeam; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **draw** | past · passive | bats and ravens | the other |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 7 | **contain** | past |  | a frightful little Dwarf |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dwarf=Theme |
| 8 | **dress** | past · passive |  | a frightful little Dwarf |  | a snake's skin |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 9 | **wear** | past |  | a great toad |  |  |  | upon carbuncle's head; for a hood | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent toad=Source |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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