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title: When the first ray of light entered the room, he noticed that the li… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 88

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When the first ray of light entered the room, he noticed that the little blue flower began to tremble, and at last it rose out of the pot and flew about the room, put everything in order, swept away the dust, and lit the fire.

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**Who acts:** first ray, room, little blue flower, flower · **What happens:** enter, notice, begin, tremble, rise, fly · **To what, where:** room, last, everything, order, dust, fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first ray, room, little blue flower, flower), 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:pg7277:28:88
# text = When the first ray of light entered the room, he noticed that the little blue flower began to tremble, and at last it rose out of the pot and flew about the room, put everything in order, swept away the dust, and lit the fire.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
38	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	37	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the first ray of light | the room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **notice** | past | room |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the little blue flower |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tremble** | to-infinitive | the little blue flower *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rise** | past | flower |  |  | last |  | out the pot | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location |
| 6 | **fly** | past | flower *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the room | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Location |
| 7 | **put** | infinitive |  | everything |  | order |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in order=Destination |
| 8 | **sweep away** | past |  | the dust |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dust=Trajectory |
| 9 | **light** | past |  | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 10 | **ray** |  |  | light |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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