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title: At the end of two hours they stopped in front of a large castle, big… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of two hours they stopped in front of a large castle, big and black and gloomy, whose doors stood wide open, although neither sound nor light gave sign of any presence within. Who acts: signs, doors, sound. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its d
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 77

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At the end of two hours they stopped in front of a large castle, big and black and gloomy, whose doors stood wide open, although neither sound nor light gave sign of any presence within.

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**Who acts:** signs, doors, sound · **What happens:** stop, stand, give, sign · **To what, where:** end, sign, presence

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (signs, doors, sound), 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:pg3027:33:77
# text = At the end of two hours they stopped in front of a large castle, big and black and gloomy, whose doors stood wide open, although neither sound nor light gave sign of any presence within.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc	_	_
32	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
34	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	within	within	ADP	IN	_	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | signs *= sign* |  |  |  | at the end of two hours | in front of a large castle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | doors |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | neither sound nor light | sign of any presence |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | any presence |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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