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title: Its white marble walls sparkled in the light, the roof was covered w… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Its white marble walls sparkled in the light, the roof was covered with mother o’ pearl, which shone like a rainbow, and the sun glowed like fire on the crystal windows. Who acts: pearl, sun, ’. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its depe
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 109

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Its white marble walls sparkled in the light, the roof was covered with mother o’ pearl, which shone like a rainbow, and the sun glowed like fire on the crystal windows.

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**Who acts:** pearl, sun, ’ · **What happens:** sparkle, cover, shine, glow, pearl · **To what, where:** white marble walls, light, crystal windows

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearl, sun, ’), 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:pg641:4:109
# text = Its white marble walls sparkled in the light, the roof was covered with mother o’ pearl, which shone like a rainbow, and the sun glowed like fire on the crystal windows.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	glowed	glow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sparkle** | participle |  | meadow's white marble walls *not said here* |  | the light |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | meadow's white marble walls |  |  |  | with mother of ’'s pearl | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mother=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | past | ’'s pearl |  |  |  |  | like a rainbow | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **glow** | participle | the sun |  |  | the crystal windows |  | like fire | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on window=Location |
| 5 | **pearl** |  | ’ |  |  |  |  |  | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=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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