--- title: She burst open his door while he was still dressing: “Well, Toper!”… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She burst open his door while he was still dressing: “Well, Toper!” was her greeting, “have you been drinking all night, wasting money that you steal from my housekeeping? Who acts: wife, Peter, Toper, you. 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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 (wife, Peter, Toper, you), 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:pg2435:16:37 # text = She burst open his door while he was still dressing: “Well, Toper!” was her greeting, “have you been drinking all night, wasting money that you steal from my housekeeping? 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 while while SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 dressing dress VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Well well INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 Toper toper NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 aux _ _ 26 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 wasting waste VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 31 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 steal steal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 housekeeping housekeeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burst** | past | wife | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **open** | infinitive | wife *not said here* | Peter's door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 3 | **dress** | past · progressive | Peter | | | | still | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | Toper | wife's greeting | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **drink** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | you | | | | night | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **waste** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | money | | my housekeeping | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 7 | **steal** *in a quote* | present | you | money | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme | | 8 | **housekeep** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom housekeeping «act intransitive»: 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:** «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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/38/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/)