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title: And suddenly the door creaked and flew open, and a great heavy chest… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And suddenly the door creaked and flew open, and a great heavy chest was pushed in, and behind it came the step-daughter, radiant and beautiful, in a dress all glittering with silver and gold. Who acts: door, chest, all. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 39

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And suddenly the door creaked and flew open, and a great heavy chest was pushed in, and behind it came the step-daughter, radiant and beautiful, in a dress all glittering with silver and gold.

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**Who acts:** door, chest, all · **What happens:** creak, fly, push in, come, glitter · **To what, where:** great heavy chest, step daughter, dress

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, chest, all), 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:pg640:37:39
# text = And suddenly the door creaked and flew open, and a great heavy chest was pushed in, and behind it came the step-daughter, radiant and beautiful, in a dress all glittering with silver and gold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	creaked	creak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	radiant	radiant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	nsubj	_	_
36	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creak** | past | the door |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | the door *not said here* |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **push in** | past · passive |  | a great heavy chest |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | chest | the step daughter and radiant |  | a dress |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dress=Location |
| 5 | **glitter** | gerund | all | a dress *not said here* |  |  |  | with silver and gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=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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