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title: The porcelain walls and floors glittered in the light of many thousa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The porcelain walls and floors glittered in the light of many thousand gold lamps; the most gorgeous flowers which tinkled out well were placed in the corridors. Who acts: porcelain walls. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 79

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The porcelain walls and floors glittered in the light of many thousand gold lamps; the most gorgeous flowers which tinkled out well were placed in the corridors.

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**Who acts:** porcelain walls · **What happens:** glitter, tinkle out, place, light · **To what, where:** light, gorgeous flowers, corridors, thousand gold lamps

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porcelain walls), 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:pg640:48:79
# text = The porcelain walls and floors glittered in the light of many thousand gold lamps; the most gorgeous flowers which tinkled out well were placed in the corridors.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | past | the porcelain walls and floors |  |  | the light of thousand gold lamps |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |
| 2 | **tinkle out** | participle · passive |  | the gorgeous flowers |  |  |  | well *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **place** | past · passive |  | the gorgeous flowers |  | the corridors |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in corridor=Destination |
| 4 | **light** |  |  | thousand gold lamps |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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