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description: The largest was several miles long; the bright Northern lights lit them up, and very large and empty and cold and glittering they were! Who acts: bright Northern lights. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 100

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The largest was several miles long; the bright Northern lights lit them up, and very large and empty and cold and glittering they were!

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**Who acts:** bright Northern lights · **What happens:** be, light up, glitter · **To what, where:** largest several miles, miles

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright Northern lights), 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:pg5615:10:100
# text = The largest was several miles long; the bright Northern lights lit them up, and very large and empty and cold and glittering they were!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the largest several miles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **light up** | past | the bright Northern lights | miles *= mile* |  |  |  | long *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | the bright Northern lights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the bright Northern lights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the bright Northern lights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **glitter** | gerund | the bright Northern lights *not said here* | miles *= mile* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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