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title: The mother said: “Rose-red, open the door quickly; it must be some t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother said: “Rose-red, open the door quickly; it must be some traveler seeking shelter.” Who acts: mother, door, traveler. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 17

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The mother said: “Rose-red, open the door quickly; it must be some traveler seeking shelter.”

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**Who acts:** mother, door, traveler · **What happens:** say, open, be, seek · **To what, where:** door, traveler, shelter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. 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, traveler), 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:pg503:36:17
# text = The mother said: “Rose-red, open the door quickly; it must be some traveler seeking shelter.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
20	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the door |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | door | some traveler |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seek** *in a quote* | gerund | some traveler *not said here* | shelter |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=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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