--- title: Again the king called out: ‘Open, Sartara Martara of the earth!’ and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Again the king called out: ‘Open, Sartara Martara of the earth!’ and this door opened like the other, and they came into the apartment where the princess dwelt, the floor, walls, and roof of which were all of silver. Who acts: king, door, Open, princess. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/) / 17 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 17 Again the king called out: ‘Open, Sartara Martara of the earth!’ and this door opened like the other, and they came into the apartment where the princess dwelt, the floor, walls, and roof of which were all of silver. **Who acts:** king, door, Open, princess · **What happens:** call out, open, come, dwell · **To what, where:** roof, apartment, floor This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, door, Open, princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:37:17 # text = Again the king called out: ‘Open, Sartara Martara of the earth!’ and this door opened like the other, and they came into the apartment where the princess dwelt, the floor, walls, and roof of which were all of silver. 1 Again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Sartara Sartara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Martara Martara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 apartment apartment NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 obl _ _ 45 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 42 nmod _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | the king | | | | again | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **open** | past | this door | | | | | like the other | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | Open | roof all | | the apartment | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into apartment=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **dwell** | past | the princess | the floor and walls | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme floor=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/18/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/)