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title: A door opened in the rocks, and having made the troop go in, he foll… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A door opened in the rocks, and having made the troop go in, he followed them, and the door shut again of itself. Who acts: rocks, troop, Ali. 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 9

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A door opened in the rocks, and having made the troop go in, he followed them, and the door shut again of itself.

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**Who acts:** rocks, troop, Ali · **What happens:** open, make, go in, follow · **To what, where:** door, rocks, troop

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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 (rocks, troop, Ali), 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:pg503:34:9
# text = A door opened in the rocks, and having made the troop go in, he followed them, and the door shut again of itself.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | participle |  | a door *not said here* |  | the rocks |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rock=Location |
| 2 | **make** | gerund · perfect | the rocks *not said here* | the troop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go in** | infinitive | the troop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | past | Ali | a door |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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