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title: At the same moment a gate opened, and the youth perceived a courtyar… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same moment a gate opened, and the youth perceived a courtyard full of flowers and beautiful trees, and on a balcony sat the lovely enchanted Princess with her retinue. Who acts: gate, youth. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its depend
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 54

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At the same moment a gate opened, and the youth perceived a courtyard full of flowers and beautiful trees, and on a balcony sat the lovely enchanted Princess with her retinue.

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**Who acts:** gate, youth · **What happens:** open, perceive, sit, enchant · **To what, where:** courtyard, lovely enchanted Princess, balcony

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (gate, youth), 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:pg640:22:54
# text = At the same moment a gate opened, and the youth perceived a courtyard full of flowers and beautiful trees, and on a balcony sat the lovely enchanted Princess with her retinue.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	retinue	retinue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	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 | a gate |  |  |  | moment |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **perceive** | past | the youth | a courtyard |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer courtyard=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sit** | past | a gate *not said here* | the lovely enchanted Princess |  | a balcony |  | with gate's retinue | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on balcony=Location |
| 4 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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