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title: The doors flew open, and between rows of low-bending courtiers and s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The doors flew open, and between rows of low-bending courtiers and servants the king approached the throne, leading his pretended son by the hand. Who acts: doors, rows. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 11

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The doors flew open, and between rows of low-bending courtiers and servants the king approached the throne, leading his pretended son by the hand.

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**Who acts:** doors, rows · **What happens:** fly, bend, servant, approach, lead, pretend · **To what, where:** king, throne, pretended son

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, rows), 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:pg2435:35:11
# text = The doors flew open, and between rows of low-bending courtiers and servants the king approached the throne, leading his pretended son by the hand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	servants	servant	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the doors |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **servant** | present | rows of low bending courtiers *not said here* | the king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **approach** | past | rows of low bending courtiers | the throne |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme |
| 5 | **lead** | gerund | rows of low bending courtiers *not said here* | king's pretended son |  |  |  | by the hand | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme by hand=Destination |
| 6 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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