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title: Every door of the castle stood wide open, and every window and turre… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every door of the castle stood wide open, and every window and turret was illuminated, so it looked more wonderful than before. Who acts: door, window. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 88

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Every door of the castle stood wide open, and every window and turret was illuminated, so it looked more wonderful than before.

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**Who acts:** door, window · **What happens:** stand, illuminate, look · **To what, where:** window

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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, window), 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:pg503:23:88
# text = Every door of the castle stood wide open, and every window and turret was illuminated, so it looked more wonderful than before.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	turret	turret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | every door of the castle |  |  |  |  | open, wide *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **illuminate** | past · passive |  | every window and turret |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | past | window |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 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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