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title: ‘He had eyes like glittering stars, and a beard like foaming water.’ — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘He had eyes like glittering stars, and a beard like foaming water.’ Who acts: story, beard. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 53

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‘He had eyes like glittering stars, and a beard like foaming water.’

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**Who acts:** story, beard · **What happens:** have, glitter, foam · **To what, where:** eyes, water

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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 (story, beard), 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:pg5615:5:53
# text = ‘He had eyes like glittering stars, and a beard like foaming water.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	foaming	foam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | story | eyes |  |  |  | like glittering stars; a beard *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **foam** | gerund | a beard *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=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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