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title: The mother of the Sun opened the door, and was astonished at beholdi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother of the Sun opened the door, and was astonished at beholding a mortal from the distant earthly shores, and wept with pity when she heard of all she had suffered. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 134

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The mother of the Sun opened the door, and was astonished at beholding a mortal from the distant earthly shores, and wept with pity when she heard of all she had suffered.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** open, be, behold, weep, hear, suffer · **To what, where:** door, mortal, distant earthly shores

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg540:12:134
# text = The mother of the Sun opened the door, and was astonished at beholding a mortal from the distant earthly shores, and wept with pity when she heard of all she had suffered.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	beholding	behold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the mother of the Sun | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the mother of the Sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **behold** | gerund | the mother of the Sun *not said here* | a mortal |  | the distant earthly shores |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mortal=Stimulus |
| 4 | **weep** | past | the mother of the Sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with pity | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hear** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | of all | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of all=Stimulus |
| 6 | **suffer** | past · perfect | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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