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title: Round the walls were several niches, in each of which stood glass ve… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Round the walls were several niches, in each of which stood glass vessels filled with some bright-coloured spirit or bluish smoke. Who acts: walls, each. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 34

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Round the walls were several niches, in each of which stood glass vessels filled with some bright-coloured spirit or bluish smoke.

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**Who acts:** walls, each · **What happens:** be, stand, fill · **To what, where:** glass vessels

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, each), 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:pg7277:45:34
# text = Round the walls were several niches, in each of which stood glass vessels filled with some bright-coloured spirit or bluish smoke.
1	Round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	niches	niche	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nmod	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	bluish	bluish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the walls |  |  |  |  | round several niches | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | each | glass vessels |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | glass vessels *not said here* |  |  |  | with some coloured spirit or bluish smoke | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spirit=Instrument |

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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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