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title: The many lights made the porcelain walls and floors glitter, and the… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The many lights made the porcelain walls and floors glitter, and the gorgeous tinkling flowers helped to make the place look very beautiful. Who acts: many lights, floors, gorgeous tinkling flowers, place. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Op
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 151

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The many lights made the porcelain walls and floors glitter, and the gorgeous tinkling flowers helped to make the place look very beautiful.

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**Who acts:** many lights, floors, gorgeous tinkling flowers, place · **What happens:** make, glitter, help, look · **To what, where:** porcelain walls, place

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many lights, floors, gorgeous tinkling flowers, place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:1:159
# text = The many lights made the porcelain walls and floors glitter, and the gorgeous tinkling flowers helped to make the place look very beautiful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	glitter	glitter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	tinkling	tinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	xcomp	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the many lights | the porcelain walls |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product |
| 2 | **glitter** | present | floors |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | past | the gorgeous tinkling flowers |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | the gorgeous tinkling flowers *not said here* | the place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | present | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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