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title: When he entered it all the windows shook and clattered in the strang… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he entered it all the windows shook and clattered in the strangest way, but the Prince did not heed them; he was looking so carefully for the place where the sun shone most brightly, and it seemed to him that it was upon the portrait of a most splendidly handsome young man. Who acts: prince, wi
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 62

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When he entered it all the windows shook and clattered in the strangest way, but the Prince did not heed them; he was looking so carefully for the place where the sun shone most brightly, and it seemed to him that it was upon the portrait of a most splendidly handsome young man.

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**Who acts:** prince, windows, sun, it · **What happens:** enter, shake, clatter, not heed, look, shine · **To what, where:** key, strangest way, windows, prince

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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 (prince, windows, sun, it), 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:pg540:34:62
# text = When he entered it all the windows shook and clattered in the strangest way, but the Prince did not heed them; he was looking so carefully for the place where the sun shone most brightly, and it seemed to him that it was upon the portrait of a most splendidly handsome young man.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	clattered	clatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	strangest	strange	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	heed	heed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
47	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	xcomp	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
52	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	53	advmod	_	_
53	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | prince | key |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
| 2 | **shake** | past | all windows |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **clatter** | participle | all windows *not said here* |  |  | the strangest way |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 4 | **not** **heed** | past · do-support | the Prince | windows *= window* |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | past · progressive | prince |  |  |  |  | for the place; carefully *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for place=Theme |
| 6 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **seem** | past | it |  | prince |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | sun |  |  |  |  | upon the portrait; of a handsome young man | tree rules |

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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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