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title: The mole closed up the hole again which let in the light, and then e… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The mole closed up the hole again which let in the light, and then escorted the ladies home. Who acts: mole. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 167

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The mole closed up the hole again which let in the light, and then escorted the ladies home.

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**Who acts:** mole · **What happens:** close up, let, escort · **To what, where:** hole, light, ladies

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mole), 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:pg640:47:167
# text = The mole closed up the hole again which let in the light, and then escorted the ladies home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	escorted	escort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close up** | participle | the mole *not said here* | the hole |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **let** | past | the mole |  |  | the light | again |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **escort** | past | the mole *not said here* | the ladies |  |  | then | home *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=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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