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title: At first it was quite dark, and the flaming torch only lit up dirty… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At first it was quite dark, and the flaming torch only lit up dirty grey stone walls. Who acts: wood. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 55

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At first it was quite dark, and the flaming torch only lit up dirty grey stone walls.

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**Who acts:** wood · **What happens:** be, lit up · **To what, where:** flaming torch

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood), 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:pg640:24:55
# text = At first it was quite dark, and the flaming torch only lit up dirty grey stone walls.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wood |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lit up** | participle · passive |  | the flaming torch |  |  |  |  | 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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