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title: The gate swung open to let him through, and he next passed successiv… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The gate swung open to let him through, and he next passed successively three courts, surrounded by deep ditches filled with running water, with birds of brilliant plumage flying about the banks. Who acts: gate, brilliant plumage. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Be
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 44

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The gate swung open to let him through, and he next passed successively three courts, surrounded by deep ditches filled with running water, with birds of brilliant plumage flying about the banks.

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**Who acts:** gate, brilliant plumage · **What happens:** swing, let, pass, surround, fill, run · **To what, where:** gate, three courts, deep ditches

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, brilliant plumage), 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:pg640:16:44
# text = The gate swung open to let him through, and he next passed successively three courts, surrounded by deep ditches filled with running water, with birds of brilliant plumage flying about the banks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	through	through	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	next	next	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	successively	successively	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:agent	_	_
22	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | past | the gate |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | the gate *not said here* | gate |  |  |  | through *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | past | gate | three courts |  |  |  | with birds of brilliant plumage; next, successively *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme court=Trajectory |
| 4 | **surround** | participle |  | three courts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fill** | participle |  | deep ditches *not said here* |  |  |  | with running water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
| 6 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fly** | gerund | brilliant plumage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the banks | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about bank=Location |

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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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