--- title: The Fairy touched each door with her wand, and it sprang open instan… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Fairy touched each door with her wand, and it sprang open instantly, but they had to go through forty before they came to the Princess, who was sitting on the floor looking very dejected. Who acts: Fairy, door, King, Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/182/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/) / 182 # The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 182 The Fairy touched each door with her wand, and it sprang open instantly, but they had to go through forty before they came to the Princess, who was sitting on the floor looking very dejected. **Who acts:** Fairy, door, King, Princess · **What happens:** touch, spring, have, go, come, sit · **To what, where:** door, forty, floor This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, door, King, Princess), 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:pg540:22:182 # text = The Fairy touched each door with her wand, and it sprang open instantly, but they had to go through forty before they came to the Princess, who was sitting on the floor looking very dejected. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 wand wand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 23 before before SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ _ 37 very very ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 dejected deject VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past | the Fairy | each door | | | | with fairy's wand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Experiencer with wand=Instrument | | 2 | **spring** | past | door | | | | | instantly, open *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | King | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | | | forty | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through forty=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **come** | past | King | | | | | to the Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **sit** | past · progressive | the Princess | | | the floor | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | | 7 | **look** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **deject** | participle | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/181/) - next →: [sentence 183](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/183/) - ↑ back to [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/)