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title: The moment he enters, the basin and lance are put away in a dark cel… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The moment he enters, the basin and lance are put away in a dark cellar which no key but one can open. Who acts: magician, dark cellar, one. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 83

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The moment he enters, the basin and lance are put away in a dark cellar which no key but one can open.

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**Who acts:** magician, dark cellar, one · **What happens:** enter, put away, key, open · **To what, where:** moment, dark cellar

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, dark cellar, one), 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:pg3454:26:83
# text = The moment he enters, the basin and lance are put away in a dark cellar which no key but one can open.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | present | magician | the moment and the basin and lance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moment=Destination |
| 2 | **put away** | present · passive |  | the moment and the basin and lance |  | a dark cellar and no key |  | away *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cellar=Destination |
| 3 | **key** |  | a dark cellar and no key |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | can | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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