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title: Beneath the trees were golden pavilions, with flags of silver all br… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Beneath the trees were golden pavilions, with flags of silver all brightly lighted up. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 38

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Beneath the trees were golden pavilions, with flags of silver all brightly lighted up.

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**What happens:** be, light up · **To what, where:** golden pavilions

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:34:38
# text = Beneath the trees were golden pavilions, with flags of silver all brightly lighted up.
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pavilions	pavilion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | golden pavilions and flags of silver |  |  |  | beneath the trees | tree rules |
| 2 | **light up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | all, brightly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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