--- title: At first he could not see any keyhole, but after a careful search he… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At first he could not see any keyhole, but after a careful search he found one hidden in the carving, and the golden key just fitted it; so the Prince gave it a vigorous turn and the doors flew open. Who acts: noise, golden key, Prince, doors. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The G --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/49/) [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 Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/) / 49 # The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 49 At first he could not see any keyhole, but after a careful search he found one hidden in the carving, and the golden key just fitted it; so the Prince gave it a vigorous turn and the doors flew open. **Who acts:** noise, golden key, Prince, doors · **What happens:** not see, find, hide, fit, give, fly · **To what, where:** keyhole, one, key This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, golden key, Prince, doors), 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:pg540:34:49 # text = At first he could not see any keyhole, but after a careful search he found one hidden in the carving, and the golden key just fitted it; so the Prince gave it a vigorous turn and the doors flew open. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 keyhole keyhole NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 18 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 carving carving NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 just just ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 fitted fit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 vigorous vigorous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 43 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | could | noise | any keyhole | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer keyhole=Stimulus | | 2 | **find** | past | noise | one | | | after a careful search | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | | 3 | **hide** | participle | | | | | | in the carving | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in carving=Location | | 4 | **fit** | past | the golden key | keyhole | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **give** | past | the Prince | key | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient turn=Theme | | 6 | **fly** | past | the doors | | | | | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/50/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/)