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title: The windows were very high, and the panes were red, blue, and yellow… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The windows were very high, and the panes were red, blue, and yellow, so that the light came through in curious colours. Who acts: windows, panes, light. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 17

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The windows were very high, and the panes were red, blue, and yellow, so that the light came through in curious colours.

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**Who acts:** windows, panes, light · **What happens:** be, come through · **To what, where:** curious colours

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (windows, panes, light), 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:pg5615:9:17
# text = The windows were very high, and the panes were red, blue, and yellow, so that the light came through in curious colours.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	through	through	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the windows |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the panes |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the panes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the windows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come through** | past | the light |  |  | curious colours |  | through *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in colour=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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