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title: And there were twelve furnaces there and twelve doors, and these twe… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And there were twelve furnaces there and twelve doors, and these twelve doors needed no man to open or shut them, for they opened and shut themselves. Who acts: twelve furnaces, twelve doors, furnaces. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, with its dep
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 3

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And there were twelve furnaces there and twelve doors, and these twelve doors needed no man to open or shut them, for they opened and shut themselves.

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**Who acts:** twelve furnaces, twelve doors, furnaces · **What happens:** be, need, open, shut · **To what, where:** man, doors

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve furnaces, twelve doors, furnaces), 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:pg29672:6:3
# text = And there were twelve furnaces there and twelve doors, and these twelve doors needed no man to open or shut them, for they opened and shut themselves.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	furnaces	furnace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | twelve furnaces and twelve doors |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | past | this twelve doors | no man |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | to-infinitive | this twelve doors *not said here* | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shut** | infinitive | this twelve doors *not said here* | doors *= door* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **open** | past | furnaces *= furnace* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **shut** | past | furnaces *= furnace* *not said here* | doors *= door* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |

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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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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