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title: Hundreds of tapers burnt upon golden candlesticks, and shed a light… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hundreds of tapers burnt upon golden candlesticks, and shed a light like the brightest day. Who acts: Hundreds. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 75

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Hundreds of tapers burnt upon golden candlesticks, and shed a light like the brightest day.

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**Who acts:** Hundreds · **What happens:** burnt, shed · **To what, where:** light

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hundreds), 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:pg640:5:75
# text = Hundreds of tapers burnt upon golden candlesticks, and shed a light like the brightest day.
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	candlesticks	candlestick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shed	shed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt** | participle | Hundreds of tapers |  |  |  |  | upon golden candlesticks | tree rules |
| 2 | **shed** | past | Hundreds of tapers *not said here* | a light |  |  | day |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Source |

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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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