--- title: And in the middle of this was a big, huge carbuncle, which kept spin… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And in the middle of this was a big, huge carbuncle, which kept spinning round and round, and this was what gave light by its rays to the whole hall, which seemed as if the setting sun was shining on it. Who acts: this, big huge carbuncle, whole hall, setting sun. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/55/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/) / 55 # English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 55 And in the middle of this was a big, huge carbuncle, which kept spinning round and round, and this was what gave light by its rays to the whole hall, which seemed as if the setting sun was shining on it. **Who acts:** this, big huge carbuncle, whole hall, setting sun, middle · **What happens:** be, keep, spin, seem, shine, ray · **To what, where:** big huge carbuncle, middle This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, big huge carbuncle, whole hall, setting sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:24:55 # text = And in the middle of this was a big, huge carbuncle, which kept spinning round and round, and this was what gave light by its rays to the whole hall, which seemed as if the setting sun was shining on it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 6 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 carbuncle carbuncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 16 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 17 round round ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 round round ADV RB _ 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 26 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 38 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 setting setting NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | this | a big huge carbuncle | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | past | a big huge carbuncle | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **spin** | gerund | a big huge carbuncle *not said here* | | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | this | | | | | by middle's rays; to the whole hall; give *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **seem** | past | the whole hall | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **shine** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | the setting sun | | | middle | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | | 7 | **ray** | | middle | | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/56/) - ↑ back to [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/)