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title: The lady-birches waved in the wind; and when the sun shone, everythi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lady-birches waved in the wind; and when the sun shone, everything glittered and sparkled as if it were sprinkled with diamond dust, and great diamonds were lying on the snowy carpet. Who acts: sun, great diamonds. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 101

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The lady-birches waved in the wind; and when the sun shone, everything glittered and sparkled as if it were sprinkled with diamond dust, and great diamonds were lying on the snowy carpet.

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**Who acts:** sun, great diamonds · **What happens:** wave, shine, glitter, sparkle, sprinkle, lie · **To what, where:** lady birches, everything, branch, snowy carpet

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, great diamonds), 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:pg5615:5:101
# text = The lady-birches waved in the wind; and when the sun shone, everything glittered and sparkled as if it were sprinkled with diamond dust, and great diamonds were lying on the snowy carpet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	birches	birch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	waved	wave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
17	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | participle |  | the lady birches *not said here* |  |  |  | in the wind | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | past | the sun | everything |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 3 | **glitter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sparkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sprinkle** | past · passive |  | branch |  |  |  | with diamond dust | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dust=Theme |
| 6 | **lie** | past · progressive | great diamonds |  |  | the snowy carpet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on carpet=Location |

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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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