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title: Then he stands up on end, puts his two fore-paws on the latch and th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he stands up on end, puts his two fore-paws on the latch and the door opens. Who acts: story, door. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 37

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Then he stands up on end, puts his two fore-paws on the latch and the door opens.

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**Who acts:** story, door · **What happens:** stand up, put, open · **To what, where:** end, two fore paws, latch

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, 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:pg540:33:37
# text = Then he stands up on end, puts his two fore-paws on the latch and the door opens.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	fore	fore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	latch	latch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | present | story |  |  |  | on end; then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location |
| 2 | **put** | present | story *not said here* | story's two fore paws |  | the latch |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on latch=Destination |
| 3 | **open** | present | the door |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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