--- title: In a moment a glittering palace arose before the eyes of the Fairy w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In a moment a glittering palace arose before the eyes of the Fairy which blinded her with its dazzling splendour, and with its many doors and passages prevented her for some time from finding her way out of it. Who acts: glittering palace, Fairy, many doors. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glittering palace, Fairy, many doors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:25:90 # text = In a moment a glittering palace arose before the eyes of the Fairy which blinded her with its dazzling splendour, and with its many doors and passages prevented her for some time from finding her way out of it. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 glittering glitter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 before before ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 blinded blind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 dazzling dazzle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 amod _ _ 20 splendour splendour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 passages passage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 prevented prevent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 from from SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 out out ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glitter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **arise** | past | a glittering palace | | | the eyes of the Fairy | moment | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location | | 3 | **blind** | past | the Fairy | palace | | | | with shelter's dazzling splendour | tree rules | | 4 | **dazzle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **prevent** | past | shelter's many doors and passages | palace | | | time | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme | | 6 | **find** | gerund | shelter's many doors and passages *not said here* | palace's way | | shelter | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/89/) - next →: [The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/26/1/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/)