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title: When he went up into the town all the streets were gleaming with lig… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he went up into the town all the streets were gleaming with light, and the wedding of the Princess was just about to begin. Who acts: Irishman, streets, wedding. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 149

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When he went up into the town all the streets were gleaming with light, and the wedding of the Princess was just about to begin.

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**Who acts:** Irishman, streets, wedding · **What happens:** go up, gleam, be, wed · **To what, where:** town, Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, streets, wedding), 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:pg640:45:149
# text = When he went up into the town all the streets were gleaming with light, and the wedding of the Princess was just about to begin.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Irishman |  |  | the town |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **gleam** | past · progressive | all streets |  |  |  |  | with light | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the wedding of the Princess |  |  |  |  | about, begin *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wed** |  |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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