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title: It has the virtue both of opening the gate and also of sending to sl… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It has the virtue both of opening the gate and also of sending to sleep all the inhabitants. Who acts: grain, both. 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 74

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It has the virtue both of opening the gate and also of sending to sleep all the inhabitants.

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**Who acts:** grain, both · **What happens:** have, open, send, sleep · **To what, where:** virtue, gate, inhabitants

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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 (grain, both), 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:pg640:11:74
# text = It has the virtue both of opening the gate and also of sending to sleep all the inhabitants.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | grain | the virtue |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | gerund | both | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | gerund | both *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | both *not said here* | all inhabitants |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=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 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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