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title: At their approach the mountain had opened a little, and the bagpiper… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At their approach the mountain had opened a little, and the bagpiper had gone in with them, after which it had closed again. Who acts: bagpiper, mountain, boys. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 84

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At their approach the mountain had opened a little, and the bagpiper had gone in with them, after which it had closed again.

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**Who acts:** bagpiper, mountain, boys · **What happens:** open, go in, close, approach · **To what, where:** mountain, approach

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bagpiper, mountain, boys), 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:pg540:32:84
# text = At their approach the mountain had opened a little, and the bagpiper had gone in with them, after which it had closed again.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bagpiper	bagpiper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · perfect · passive |  | the mountain |  | boys's approach |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at approach=Location |
| 2 | **go in** | past · perfect | the bagpiper |  |  |  |  | with boys *= boy* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **close** | past · perfect | mountain |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **approach** |  | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=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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