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title: The three great doors were closely barred, and the one through which… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The three great doors were closely barred, and the one through which she had entered shut with a spring, but her feather was still in her hair, and by its aid she detected a crack in the wooden panelling, through which a streak of light could be dimly seen. Who acts: door, feather. A sentence of «Th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 16

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The three great doors were closely barred, and the one through which she had entered shut with a spring, but her feather was still in her hair, and by its aid she detected a crack in the wooden panelling, through which a streak of light could be dimly seen.

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**Who acts:** door, feather · **What happens:** bar, enter, shut, be, detect, see · **To what, where:** three great doors, hair, crack, wooden panelling, streak

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (door, feather), 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:pg3454:33:16
# text = The three great doors were closely barred, and the one through which she had entered shut with a spring, but her feather was still in her hair, and by its aid she detected a crack in the wooden panelling, through which a streak of light could be dimly seen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	detected	detect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	panelling	panelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
44	through	through	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obl	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux:pass	_	_
52	dimly	dimly	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bar** | past · passive |  | the three great doors |  |  |  | closely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | past · perfect | door |  |  |  |  | through the one | tree rules |
| 3 | **shut** | participle | door *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | door's feather |  |  | door's hair | still |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **detect** | past | door | a crack |  | the wooden panelling |  | by feather's aid | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus |
| 6 | **see** | could · passive |  | a streak of light |  |  |  | dimly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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