--- title: On arriving at the door, which blazed with gold and jewels, she orde… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On arriving at the door, which blazed with gold and jewels, she ordered her servants to knock loudly, but it was useless; it seemed as if all the inhabitants of the castle must be asleep or dead. Who acts: mother, door, servants, gold. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Ca --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/64/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The White Cat, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/) / 64 # The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 64 On arriving at the door, which blazed with gold and jewels, she ordered her servants to knock loudly, but it was useless; it seemed as if all the inhabitants of the castle must be asleep or dead. **Who acts:** mother, door, servants, gold, it, inhabitants · **What happens:** arrive, blaze, order, knock, be, seem · **To what, where:** door, servants This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, door, servants, gold), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:24:64 # text = On arriving at the door, which blazed with gold and jewels, she ordered her servants to knock loudly, but it was useless; it seemed as if all the inhabitants of the castle must be asleep or dead. 1 On on SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 arriving arrive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 blazed blaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 20 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 39 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | gerund | mother *not said here* | | | the door | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **blaze** | past | the door | | | | | with gold and jewels | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme | | 3 | **order** | past | mother | mother's servants | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **knock** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mother's servants *not said here* | | | | | loudly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past | gold | | | | | useless *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **seem** | past | it | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | all inhabitants of the castle | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | | all inhabitants of the castle *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/65/) - ↑ back to [The White Cat, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/)