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title: The tiny door swung back, and a soft crimson light gleamed over the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The tiny door swung back, and a soft crimson light gleamed over the whole cabinet. Who acts: tiny door. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 55

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The tiny door swung back, and a soft crimson light gleamed over the whole cabinet.

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**Who acts:** tiny door · **What happens:** swing back, gleam · **To what, where:** soft crimson light, whole cabinet

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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 (tiny 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:pg540:34:55
# text = The tiny door swung back, and a soft crimson light gleamed over the whole cabinet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swung	swing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing back** | participle | the tiny door | a soft crimson light |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **gleam** | participle |  | a soft crimson light *not said here* |  | the whole cabinet |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cabinet=Location |

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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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