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title: ‘Now open the gates and doors all wide, And carry old Mr Fox outside.’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now open the gates and doors all wide, And carry old Mr Fox outside.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 29

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‘Now open the gates and doors all wide, And carry old Mr Fox outside.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** open, carry · **To what, where:** gates, old Mr Fox

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2591:54:29
# text = ‘Now open the gates and doors all wide, And carry old Mr Fox outside.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | the gates and doors |  |  | now | wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | present |  | old Mr Fox |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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