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title: Through all twelve doors he went, and came out again at the first do… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Through all twelve doors he went, and came out again at the first door, and looked about him, and--there were no dogs to be seen. Who acts: man, dogs. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 5

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Through all twelve doors he went, and came out again at the first door, and looked about him, and--there were no dogs to be seen.

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**Who acts:** man, dogs · **What happens:** go, come out, look, be, see · **To what, where:** twelve doors, first door

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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 (man, dogs), 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:pg29672:6:5
# text = Through all twelve doors he went, and came out again at the first door, and looked about him, and--there were no dogs to be seen.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  | all twelve doors |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come out** | past | man *not said here* |  |  | the first door | again | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | no dogs |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | no dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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