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title: Then she took him all over the house to amuse him, and opened every… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she took him all over the house to amuse him, and opened every room, for her father had given her the keys before he left; but when they came to the last room Sigurd noticed one key on the bunch which had not been used and asked which room it belonged to.” Who acts: Helga, father, keys, Sigurd.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 99

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Then she took him all over the house to amuse him, and opened every room, for her father had given her the keys before he left; but when they came to the last room Sigurd noticed one key on the bunch which had not been used and asked which room it belonged to.”

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**Who acts:** Helga, father, keys, Sigurd, glove · **What happens:** take, amuse, open, give, leave, come · **To what, where:** Sigurd, house, room, keys, Helga, last room

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, father, keys, Sigurd), 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:pg2435:33:99
# text = Then she took him all over the house to amuse him, and opened every room, for her father had given her the keys before he left; but when they came to the last room Sigurd noticed one key on the bunch which had not been used and asked which room it belonged to.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
48	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	conj	_	_
52	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	53	det	_	_
53	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Helga |  | Sigurd | the house | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | Helga *not said here* | Sigurd |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **open** | past |  | every room |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect | Helga's father | the keys | Helga |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient key=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | keys *= key* |  |  | the last room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **notice** | past | Sigurd | one key |  | the bunch |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer key=Stimulus |
| 8 | **not** **use** | past · perfect · passive |  | the bunch |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle |  | which room |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent room=Recipient |
| 10 | **belong** | past | glove | which room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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