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title: In the store-room he noticed a half-opened cupboard which he did not… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the store-room he noticed a half-opened cupboard which he did not remember having seen before. Who acts: scent. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 88

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In the store-room he noticed a half-opened cupboard which he did not remember having seen before.

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**Who acts:** scent · **What happens:** notice, open, not remember, not have, see · **To what, where:** opened cupboard, store room

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scent), 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:pg641:26:88
# text = In the store-room he noticed a half-opened cupboard which he did not remember having seen before.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | scent | a opened cupboard |  | the store room |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cupboard=Stimulus |
| 2 | **open** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **remember** | past · do-support | scent | a opened cupboard |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **have** | gerund | scent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | participle | scent *not said here* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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