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title: Passing into it, they entered a long underground passage, which led… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Passing into it, they entered a long underground passage, which led out on to a wide field, above which spread a blue sky. Who acts: gold, long underground passage, blue sky. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 61

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Passing into it, they entered a long underground passage, which led out on to a wide field, above which spread a blue sky.

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**Who acts:** gold, long underground passage, blue sky · **What happens:** pass, enter, lead out, spread · **To what, where:** opening, long underground passage, wide field

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, long underground passage, blue sky), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:2212`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:33:61
# text = Passing into it, they entered a long underground passage, which led out on to a wide field, above which spread a blue sky.
1	Passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	above	above	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
23	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund | gold *not said here* |  |  | opening |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **enter** | past | gold | a long underground passage |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme passage=Destination |
| 3 | **lead out** | past | a long underground passage |  |  | a wide field |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on field=Destination |
| 4 | **spread** | past | a blue sky |  |  | a wide field |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above which=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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