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title: She opened it, and out came a diminutive hall porter at whose belt h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She opened it, and out came a diminutive hall porter at whose belt hung a tiny chain, at the end of which was a golden key half as long as the smallest pin you ever saw. Who acts: Fairer, diminutive hall, belt, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 20

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She opened it, and out came a diminutive hall porter at whose belt hung a tiny chain, at the end of which was a golden key half as long as the smallest pin you ever saw.

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**Who acts:** Fairer, diminutive hall, belt, you · **What happens:** open, come, porter, hang, be, see · **To what, where:** nut, tiny chain, end, golden key half, smallest pin

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (Fairer, diminutive hall, belt, you), 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:pg640:24:20
# text = She opened it, and out came a diminutive hall porter at whose belt hung a tiny chain, at the end of which was a golden key half as long as the smallest pin you ever saw.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	diminutive	diminutive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	porter	porter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	22	parataxis	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
38	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | Fairer | nut |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Fairer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **porter** | present | a diminutive hall |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hang** | past | belt | a tiny chain |  |  | at the end | long *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chain=Theme at end=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | a golden key half |  |  | of the end |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | past | you | the smallest pin *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pin=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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