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title: While they were speaking thus, encouraging each other, they had reac… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: While they were speaking thus, encouraging each other, they had reached the room; the eldest fitted the key into the lock, and snap! the door stood open. Who acts: Sisters, door. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 26

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While they were speaking thus, encouraging each other, they had reached the room; the eldest fitted the key into the lock, and snap! the door stood open.

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**Who acts:** Sisters, door · **What happens:** speak, encourage, reach, fit, stand · **To what, where:** each, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sisters, door), 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:pg540:12:26
# text = While they were speaking thus, encouraging each other, they had reached the room; the eldest fitted the key into the lock, and snap! the door stood open.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	encouraging	encourage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	7	obj	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
19	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
32	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **encourage** | gerund | Sisters *= sister* *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past · perfect | Sisters *= sister* | the room |  |  |  | the eldest fitted key into the lock and snap *obl* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 4 | **fit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stand** | past | the door |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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