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title: The door of the Bad One’s hut was open, and he saw that the ceiling… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The door of the Bad One’s hut was open, and he saw that the ceiling was supported by great wooden beams, from which hung the bags of gold and the little bridge. Who acts: door, sight, great wooden beams. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, with its depe
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 11

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The door of the Bad One’s hut was open, and he saw that the ceiling was supported by great wooden beams, from which hung the bags of gold and the little bridge.

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**Who acts:** door, sight, great wooden beams · **What happens:** be, see, support, hang · **To what, where:** ceiling, bags · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, sight, great wooden beams), 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:pg3282:7:11
# text = The door of the Bad One’s hut was open, and he saw that the ceiling was supported by great wooden beams, from which hung the bags of gold and the little bridge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the door of the Bad One's hut |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | sight |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **support** | past · passive | great wooden beams | the ceiling |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hang** | past |  | the bags of gold and the little bridge |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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