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title: He found the palace doors wide open and went boldly into a sort of h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He found the palace doors wide open and went boldly into a sort of hall which was full of people, and where men and maids were gossiping together. Who acts: boy, hall, men. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 45

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He found the palace doors wide open and went boldly into a sort of hall which was full of people, and where men and maids were gossiping together.

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**Who acts:** boy, hall, men · **What happens:** find, go, be, gossip, sort · **To what, where:** palace doors, sort, hall

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, hall, men), 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:pg3282:18:45
# text = He found the palace doors wide open and went boldly into a sort of hall which was full of people, and where men and maids were gossiping together.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	gossiping	gossip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | boy | the palace doors |  |  |  | open *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  | a sort of hall |  | boldly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sort=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | hall |  |  |  |  | of people; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **gossip** *speech: other* | past · progressive | men and maids |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | hall |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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