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title: At the same moment the walls of the room expanded and opened out, re… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same moment the walls of the room expanded and opened out, revealing a golden throne covered with jewels. Who acts: walls. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 32

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At the same moment the walls of the room expanded and opened out, revealing a golden throne covered with jewels.

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**Who acts:** walls · **What happens:** expand, open out, reveal, cover · **To what, where:** golden throne

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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 (walls), 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:pg640:24:32
# text = At the same moment the walls of the room expanded and opened out, revealing a golden throne covered with jewels.
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	10	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	expanded	expand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	revealing	reveal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expand** | participle | the walls of the room |  |  |  | moment |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **open out** | participle | the walls of the room *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reveal** | gerund | the walls of the room *not said here* | a golden throne |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Topic |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  | a golden throne *not said here* |  |  |  | with jewels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=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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