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title: There was in the town a large dark gate, through which she had to pa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was in the town a large dark gate, through which she had to pass night and morning with the geese; would he “kindly hang up Falada’s head there, that she might see it once again?” Who acts: large dark gate, gate, Falada. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 38

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There was in the town a large dark gate, through which she had to pass night and morning with the geese; would he “kindly hang up Falada’s head there, that she might see it once again?”

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**Who acts:** large dark gate, gate, Falada · **What happens:** be, have, pass, hang up, see · **To what, where:** town, head

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large dark gate, gate, Falada), 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:pg503:37:38
# text = There was in the town a large dark gate, through which she had to pass night and morning with the geese; would he “kindly hang up Falada’s head there, that she might see it once again?”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	Falada	Falada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	38	advmod	_	_
41	again	again	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a large dark gate |  |  | the town; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | gate |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | gate *not said here* |  |  |  | night | with the geese | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hang up** *in a quote* | would | Falada | Falada's head |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | might | gate | head |  |  | again | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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