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title: That light was behind the palace of the Fairy of the Dawn, and it to… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That light was behind the palace of the Fairy of the Dawn, and it took Petru two days and nights through flowery meadows to reach it. Who acts: light, it. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 82

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That light was behind the palace of the Fairy of the Dawn, and it took Petru two days and nights through flowery meadows to reach it.

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**Who acts:** light, it · **What happens:** be, take, reach · **To what, where:** palace, Petru, flowery meadows, light

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (light, it), 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:pg641:21:82
# text = That light was behind the palace of the Fairy of the Dawn, and it took Petru two days and nights through flowery meadows to reach it.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	flowery	flowery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 | that light |  |  | the palace |  | of the Fairy of the Dawn | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | it |  | Petru | flowery meadows | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument petru=Destination |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  | light |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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