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title: ‘The halls blazed with lights; councillors and ambassadors were walk… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The halls blazed with lights; councillors and ambassadors were walking about in noiseless shoes carrying gold dishes. Who acts: halls, noiseless shoes. 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 95

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‘The halls blazed with lights; councillors and ambassadors were walking about in noiseless shoes carrying gold dishes.

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**Who acts:** halls, noiseless shoes · **What happens:** blaze, walk, carry · **To what, where:** halls, noiseless shoes, gold dishes

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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 (halls, noiseless shoes), 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:pg5615:9:95
# text = ‘The halls blazed with lights; councillors and ambassadors were walking about in noiseless shoes carrying gold dishes.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	noiseless	noiseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **blaze** | participle |  | the halls and councillors and ambassadors *not said here* |  |  |  | with lights | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | past · progressive | the halls and councillors and ambassadors |  |  | noiseless shoes |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoe=Trajectory |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | noiseless shoes *not said here* | gold dishes |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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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