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title: The house-door opened straight on to the hill-side and all round abo… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The house-door opened straight on to the hill-side and all round about were moorlands and huge stones, and swampy hollows; never a house nor a sign of life wherever you might look, for their nearest neighbours were the "ferlies" in the glen below, and the "will-o'-the-wisps" in the long grass along 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 41

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The house-door opened straight on to the hill-side and all round about were moorlands and huge stones, and swampy hollows; never a house nor a sign of life wherever you might look, for their nearest neighbours were the "ferlies" in the glen below, and the "will-o'-the-wisps" in the long grass along the pathside.

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**Who acts:** house door, house, nearest neighbours · **What happens:** open, be, look, sign · **To what, where:** glen, life

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house door, house, nearest neighbours), 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:pg14241:16:41
# text = The house-door opened straight on to the hill-side and all round about were moorlands and huge stones, and swampy hollows; never a house nor a sign of life wherever you might look, for their nearest neighbours were the "ferlies" in the glen below, and the "will-o'-the-wisps" in the long grass along the pathside.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	moorlands	moorland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	swampy	swampy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hollows	hollow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	43	amod	_	_
43	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	ferlies	ferly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	glen	glen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
52	below	below	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	64	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	wisps	wisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	64	punct	_	_
66	in	in	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
68	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	_
70	along	along	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	pathside	pathside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the house door |  |  |  |  | to the hill side | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about moorlands and huge stones and swampy hollows | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | might | a house nor a sign of life |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | hollows's nearest neighbours |  |  | the glen |  | for the ferlies | tree rules |
| 5 | **sign** |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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