--- title: They opened boxes and chests of which the keys had been lost for a h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They opened boxes and chests of which the keys had been lost for a hundred years, and found numbers of curious things, but not the dagger, and the King tore his beard, and the Queen tore her hair, for the handkerchief and the dagger were the most valuable things in the kingdom. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dagger, King, Queen, handkerchief), 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:pg540:4:27 # text = They opened boxes and chests of which the keys had been lost for a hundred years, and found numbers of curious things, but not the dagger, and the King tore his beard, and the Queen tore her hair, for the handkerchief and the dagger were the most valuable things in the kingdom. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 chests chest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dagger dagger NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 dagger dagger NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 50 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 52 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 53 advmod _ _ 53 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 parataxis _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | dagger | boxes and chests | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | | 2 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive | | the keys | | | year | of chests | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme of which=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **find** | past | dagger *not said here* | numbers of curious things | | | | the dagger *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 4 | **tore** | past | the King | King's beard | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tore** | past | the Queen | Queen's hair | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | past | the handkerchief and the dagger | the valuable things | | the kingdom | | | tree rules | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/28/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/)