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title: The interior was lit up with thousands and thousands of candles, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The interior was lit up with thousands and thousands of candles, and his wife was dressed in cloth of gold and was sitting on a much higher throne, and she wore three great golden crowns. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, wi
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 165

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The interior was lit up with thousands and thousands of candles, and his wife was dressed in cloth of gold and was sitting on a much higher throne, and she wore three great golden crowns.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** lit up, dress, sit, wear · **To what, where:** interior, wife, cloth, much higher throne, three great golden crowns

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg7277:54:165
# text = The interior was lit up with thousands and thousands of candles, and his wife was dressed in cloth of gold and was sitting on a much higher throne, and she wore three great golden crowns.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit up** | past · passive |  | the interior |  |  |  | with thousands and thousands of candles | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | past · passive |  | flounder's wife |  | cloth of gold |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **sit** | past · progressive |  |  |  | a much higher throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location |
| 4 | **wear** | past | wife | three great golden crowns |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=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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