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title: The roof was all of crimson roses, the windows of lilies, the walls… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The roof was all of crimson roses, the windows of lilies, the walls of white carnations, the floors of glowing auriculas and violets, the doors of gorgeous tulips and narcissi with sunflowers for knockers, and all round hyacinths and other sweet-smelling flowers bloomed in masses, so that the air wa
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 81

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The roof was all of crimson roses, the windows of lilies, the walls of white carnations, the floors of glowing auriculas and violets, the doors of gorgeous tulips and narcissi with sunflowers for knockers, and all round hyacinths and other sweet-smelling flowers bloomed in masses, so that the air was perfumed far and near and enchanted all who were present.

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**What happens:** glow, smell, bloom, perfume, enchant, be · **To what, where:** other smelling flowers, masses, air, all

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:14:81
# text = The roof was all of crimson roses, the windows of lilies, the walls of white carnations, the floors of glowing auriculas and violets, the doors of gorgeous tulips and narcissi with sunflowers for knockers, and all round hyacinths and other sweet-smelling flowers bloomed in masses, so that the air was perfumed far and near and enchanted all who were present.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	carnations	carnation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	auriculas	auricula	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	narcissi	narcissi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	conj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	sunflowers	sunflower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	knockers	knocker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
42	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	appos	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
46	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	amod	_	_
49	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
50	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	59	mark	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	fixed	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	perfumed	perfume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	parataxis	_	_
60	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	59	advmod	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	near	near	ADV	RB	_	60	conj	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	conj	_	_
65	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	64	obj	_	_
66	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	68	nsubj	_	_
67	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
68	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **smell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bloom** | participle |  | other smelling flowers *not said here* |  | masses |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mass=Location |
| 4 | **perfume** | past · passive |  | the air |  |  |  | far *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 5 | **enchant** | past |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus all=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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