--- title: Then the White Bear knocked on it, and a door opened, and they went… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the White Bear knocked on it, and a door opened, and they went into a castle where there were many brilliantly lighted rooms which shone with gold and silver, likewise a large hall in which there was a well-spread table, and it was so magnificent that it would be hard to make anyone understand --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/18/) [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/) / [East of the Sun and West of the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/) / 18 # The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 18 Then the White Bear knocked on it, and a door opened, and they went into a castle where there were many brilliantly lighted rooms which shone with gold and silver, likewise a large hall in which there was a well-spread table, and it was so magnificent that it would be hard to make anyone understand how splendid it was. **Who acts:** White Bear, door, bounds, many lighted rooms, table, anyone · **What happens:** knock, open, go, light, shine, spread · **To what, where:** mountain, castle, anyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (White Bear, door, bounds, many lighted rooms), 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:pg503:4:18 # text = Then the White Bear knocked on it, and a door opened, and they went into a castle where there were many brilliantly lighted rooms which shone with gold and silver, likewise a large hall in which there was a well-spread table, and it was so magnificent that it would be hard to make anyone understand how splendid it was. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Bear Bear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 24 brilliantly brilliantly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 lighted light VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 likewise likewise ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 40 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 41 expl _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 43 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 amod _ _ 46 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 53 that that SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 54 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 expl _ _ 55 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 56 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 57 cop _ _ 57 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 conj _ _ 58 to to PART TO _ 59 mark _ _ 59 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 csubj _ _ 60 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 59 obj _ _ 61 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 59 xcomp _ _ 62 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 63 advmod _ _ 63 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 ccomp _ _ 64 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 65 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knock** | past | the White Bear | | | mountain | then | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | | 2 | **open** | past | a door | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | bounds *= bound* | | | a castle | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **light** | participle | | | | | | brilliantly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **shine** | past | many lighted rooms | | | | | with gold and silver | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme | | 6 | **spread** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | table | | | | | magnificent *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | would | table *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **make** | to-infinitive | | anyone | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **understand** | infinitive | anyone *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **is** | past | table | | | | | splendid *property* | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/19/) - ↑ back to [East of the Sun and West of the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/)