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title: If the door bursts open suddenly with great crackings and groanings… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If the door bursts open suddenly with great crackings and groanings do not be afraid, the noise is caused by the power of the magic root, and you will not be hurt. Who acts: door, great crackings, power. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 105

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If the door bursts open suddenly with great crackings and groanings do not be afraid, the noise is caused by the power of the magic root, and you will not be hurt.

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**Who acts:** door, great crackings, power · **What happens:** burst, not be, cause, not hurt · **To what, where:** noise, you

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, great crackings, power), 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:pg2435:15:105
# text = If the door bursts open suddenly with great crackings and groanings do not be afraid, the noise is caused by the power of the magic root, and you will not be hurt.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bursts	burst	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	crackings	cracking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	groanings	groaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | present | the door |  |  |  |  | open, suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present · do-support | great crackings and groanings |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | present · passive | the power of the magic root | the noise |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **hurt** | future · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** «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.

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