--- title: Then, leading her into a room, it shut the door, and throwing off it… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then, leading her into a room, it shut the door, and throwing off its skin, it changed into a beautiful young man with golden locks, and flashing eyes, who embraced Grannonia tenderly, and said all sorts of pretty things to her. Who acts: step, flashing eyes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (step, flashing eyes), 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:pg7277:25:35 # text = Then, leading her into a room, it shut the door, and throwing off its skin, it changed into a beautiful young man with golden locks, and flashing eyes, who embraced Grannonia tenderly, and said all sorts of pretty things to her. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 leading lead VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 shut shut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 throwing throw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 flashing flash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 amod _ _ 33 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 embraced embrace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 37 Grannonia Grannonia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 tenderly tenderly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | gerund | step *not said here* | snake | | a room | then | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into room=Destination | | 2 | **shut** | past | step | the door | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 3 | **throw off** | gerund | step *not said here* | step's skin | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | | 4 | **change** | past | step | | | | | into a beautiful young man with golden locks *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into man=Result | | 5 | **flash** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **embrace** | past | flashing eyes | Grannonia | | | | tenderly *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grannonia=Co-Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | step *not said here* | all sorts of pretty things to snake | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sort=Topic | | 8 | **sort** | | | pretty things to snake | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/36/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/)