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title: And in it was spread an enormous repast, while the table so glittere… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in it was spread an enormous repast, while the table so glittered with golden cups and plates, flagons and dishes, candlesticks and a hundred other things beside, that it was hardly possible to look steadily at it. Who acts: it. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narciss
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 88

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And in it was spread an enormous repast, while the table so glittered with golden cups and plates, flagons and dishes, candlesticks and a hundred other things beside, that it was hardly possible to look steadily at it.

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**Who acts:** it · **What happens:** spread, glitter, be, look · **To what, where:** house, table

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:11:88
# text = And in it was spread an enormous repast, while the table so glittered with golden cups and plates, flagons and dishes, candlesticks and a hundred other things beside, that it was hardly possible to look steadily at it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	flagons	flagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	candlesticks	candlestick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
31	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	37	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	csubj	_	_
40	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past · passive |  | house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **glitter** | participle · passive |  | the table |  |  |  | with golden cups and plates and flagons and dishes and candlesticks and hundred other things | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | hardly, possible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at house; steadily *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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