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title: So she took her by the hand and led her to an open door, and as the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she took her by the hand and led her to an open door, and as the girl passed through it there fell a heavy shower of gold all over her, till she was covered with it from top to toe. Who acts: desire, girl, door. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1, with its dep
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 27

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So she took her by the hand and led her to an open door, and as the girl passed through it there fell a heavy shower of gold all over her, till she was covered with it from top to toe.

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**Who acts:** desire, girl, door · **What happens:** take, lead, pass, fall, cover · **To what, where:** Mother, open door, heavy shower, desire, top

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (desire, girl, 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:pg540:44:27
# text = So she took her by the hand and led her to an open door, and as the girl passed through it there fell a heavy shower of gold all over her, till she was covered with it from top to toe.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | desire |  | Mother |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 2 | **lead** | past | desire *not said here* | Mother |  | a open door |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to door=Destination |
| 3 | **pass** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | door | a heavy shower of gold |  | there |  | over desire | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient shower=Result |
| 5 | **cover** | past · passive |  | desire |  | top to toe |  | with door | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with it=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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