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title: He then forced the lock of a door leading into a garden, and climbin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He then forced the lock of a door leading into a garden, and climbing over several walls made his escape. Who acts: captain, climbing. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 112

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He then forced the lock of a door leading into a garden, and climbing over several walls made his escape.

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**Who acts:** captain, climbing · **What happens:** force, lead, climb, make, escape · **To what, where:** lock, garden, several walls, escape

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, climbing), 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:pg503:34:112
# text = He then forced the lock of a door leading into a garden, and climbing over several walls made his escape.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | past | captain | the lock of a door |  |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Recipient |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | captain *not said here* |  |  | a garden |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into garden=Destination |
| 3 | **climb** | gerund |  |  |  | several walls |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory |
| 4 | **make** | past | climbing | captain's escape |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product |
| 5 | **escape** |  | captain |  |  |  |  |  | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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