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title: He held the magic root to the keyhole, and to his astonishment heard… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He held the magic root to the keyhole, and to his astonishment heard all the seven locks creaking and turning, the door flew suddenly wide open, and his greedy wife’s store of gold pieces lay before his eyes. Who acts: Peter, seven locks, door, gold pieces. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 64

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He held the magic root to the keyhole, and to his astonishment heard all the seven locks creaking and turning, the door flew suddenly wide open, and his greedy wife’s store of gold pieces lay before his eyes.

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**Who acts:** Peter, seven locks, door, gold pieces · **What happens:** hold, hear, creak, turn, fly, lay · **To what, where:** magic root, seven locks, store, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, seven locks, door, gold pieces), 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:pg2435:16:64
# text = He held the magic root to the keyhole, and to his astonishment heard all the seven locks creaking and turning, the door flew suddenly wide open, and his greedy wife’s store of gold pieces lay before his eyes.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	creaking	creak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	before	before	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | Peter | the magic root |  |  |  | to the keyhole | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past |  | all seven locks |  |  |  | to Peter's astonishment | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lock=Stimulus |
| 3 | **creak** | gerund | all seven locks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | gerund | all seven locks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fly** | past | the door |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lay** | present | gold pieces | Peter's greedy wife's store *not said here* |  | Peter's eyes |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme before eye=Destination |
| 7 | **astonish** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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