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title: So he commanded his servants to leave the windows open in order that… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he commanded his servants to leave the windows open in order that he might get more air. Who acts: Saphir. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 38

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So he commanded his servants to leave the windows open in order that he might get more air.

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**Who acts:** Saphir · **What happens:** command, leave, open, get · **To what, where:** servants, windows, order, more air · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saphir), 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:pg640:11:38
# text = So he commanded his servants to leave the windows open in order that he might get more air.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **command** | past | Saphir | Saphir's servants |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | the windows |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | present |  |  |  | order |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location |
| 4 | **get** | might | Saphir | more air |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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