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title: Golden carpets were laid down and the great gates thrown open to wel… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Golden carpets were laid down and the great gates thrown open to welcome the princess. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 123

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Golden carpets were laid down and the great gates thrown open to welcome the princess.

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**What happens:** lay down, throw, welcome · **To what, where:** Golden carpets, great gates, princess

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2435:5:123
# text = Golden carpets were laid down and the great gates thrown open to welcome the princess.
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay down** | past · passive |  | Golden carpets |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **throw** | participle · passive |  | the great gates |  |  |  | open *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **welcome** | to-infinitive |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |

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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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