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title: He knocked at the door, which was opened noiselessly and by invisibl… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He knocked at the door, which was opened noiselessly and by invisible hands. Who acts: son. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 13

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He knocked at the door, which was opened noiselessly and by invisible hands.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** knock, open · **To what, where:** door

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg640:38:13
# text = He knocked at the door, which was opened noiselessly and by invisible hands.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	noiselessly	noiselessly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | past | son |  |  |  |  | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | past · passive |  | the door |  |  |  | noiselessly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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