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title: This door was of gold covered with carbuncles, and it was the pure r… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This door was of gold covered with carbuncles, and it was the pure red light which shone from them that had shown him the way through the forest. Who acts: door, pure red light. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 18

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This door was of gold covered with carbuncles, and it was the pure red light which shone from them that had shown him the way through the forest.

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**Who acts:** door, pure red light · **What happens:** be, cover, shine, show · **To what, where:** gold, pure red light, two, forest

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, pure red light), 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:pg503:23:18
# text = This door was of gold covered with carbuncles, and it was the pure red light which shone from them that had shown him the way through the forest.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	carbuncles	carbuncle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this door |  |  |  |  | of gold and the pure red light | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | gold and the pure red light *not said here* |  |  |  | with carbuncles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with carbuncle=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | door | the pure red light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | past | the pure red light |  |  |  |  | from carbuncles *= carbuncle* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | past · perfect | the pure red light |  | two | the forest |  | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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