--- title: Do not rest till you reach a wide stairway, down which you will go t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Do not rest till you reach a wide stairway, down which you will go till you come out into a spacious hall, in which there are three doors; two of them stand open, the third is fastened with locks and bolts of iron. Who acts: you, three doors, two, iron. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, three doors, two, iron), 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:pg2435:15:101 # text = Do not rest till you reach a wide stairway, down which you will go till you come out into a spacious hall, in which there are three doors; two of them stand open, the third is fastened with locks and bolts of iron. 1 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 rest rest VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 till till SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 reach reach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 stairway stairway NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 down down ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 16 till till SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 out out ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 spacious spacious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obl _ _ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 29 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 36 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 fastened fasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 conj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 bolts bolt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **rest** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **reach** | present | you | a wide stairway | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stairway=Theme | | 3 | **go** | future | | | | | | down *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come out** | present | you | | | a spacious hall | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **does** | present | three doors | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | | 6 | **stand** | present | two of knees | | | | | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **fasten** | present · passive | | the third | | | | with locks and bolts of iron | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with lock=Co-Patient | | 8 | **bolt** | | iron | | | | | | nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/102/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/)