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title: As the last star twinkled out of the sky they drew them in, and amon… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As the last star twinkled out of the sky they drew them in, and among the multitude of fishes lay two with scales of gold, such as no man had ever looked on. Who acts: fishermen. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 72

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As the last star twinkled out of the sky they drew them in, and among the multitude of fishes lay two with scales of gold, such as no man had ever looked on.

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**Who acts:** fishermen · **What happens:** twinkle out, draw, lay, look on · **To what, where:** sky, nets, two, multitude, scales

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishermen), 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:pg641:35:72
# text = As the last star twinkled out of the sky they drew them in, and among the multitude of fishes lay two with scales of gold, such as no man had ever looked on.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	twinkled	twinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
34	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twinkle out** | past |  | the sky |  |  |  | as the last star | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sky=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | fishermen *= fisherman* | nets *= net* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | present |  | two |  | the multitude of fishes |  | with scales of gold | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent two=Theme among multitude=Destination |
| 4 | **look on** | past · perfect |  | scales of gold *not said here* |  |  | ever | such no man | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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