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title: And then the folding doors were opened, and a crowd of children rush… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And then the folding doors were opened, and a crowd of children rushed in, as though they wanted to knock down the whole tree, whilst the older people followed soberly. Who acts: crowd, doors, older people. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, with its de
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 78

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And then the folding doors were opened, and a crowd of children rushed in, as though they wanted to knock down the whole tree, whilst the older people followed soberly.

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**Who acts:** crowd, doors, older people · **What happens:** open, rush in, want, knock down, follow · **To what, where:** folding doors, whole tree

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, doors, older people), 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:pg5615:11:78
# text = And then the folding doors were opened, and a crowd of children rushed in, as though they wanted to knock down the whole tree, whilst the older people followed soberly.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	folding	folding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
33	soberly	soberly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · passive |  | the folding doors |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **rush in** | participle | a crowd of children |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | past | doors *= door* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **knock down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | doors *= door* *not said here* | the whole tree |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 5 | **follow** | past | the older people |  |  |  |  | soberly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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