--- title: Then the doors of the hall flew open, and there stood the whole Cour… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the doors of the hall flew open, and there stood the whole Court round his wife, who was sitting on a high throne of gold and diamonds; she wore a great golden crown, and had a sceptre of gold and precious stones in her hand, and by her on either side stood six pages in a row, each one a head t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/98/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/) / 98 # The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 98 Then the doors of the hall flew open, and there stood the whole Court round his wife, who was sitting on a high throne of gold and diamonds; she wore a great golden crown, and had a sceptre of gold and precious stones in her hand, and by her on either side stood six pages in a row, each one a head taller than the other. **Who acts:** doors, wife · **What happens:** fly, stand, sit, wear, have · **To what, where:** whole Court, high throne, great golden crown, sceptre, hand, six pages This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, wife), 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:pg7277:54:98 # text = Then the doors of the hall flew open, and there stood the whole Court round his wife, who was sitting on a high throne of gold and diamonds; she wore a great golden crown, and had a sceptre of gold and precious stones in her hand, and by her on either side stood six pages in a row, each one a head taller than the other. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 12 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 round round ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 acl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 sceptre sceptre NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 53 by by ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 obl _ _ 55 on on ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 57 det _ _ 57 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 58 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 59 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 60 nummod _ _ 60 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 obj _ _ 61 in in ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 65 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 66 det _ _ 66 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 appos _ _ 67 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 obl:unmarked _ _ 69 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 66 amod _ _ 70 than than ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | the doors of the hall | | | | then | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | the doors of the hall *not said here* | the whole Court | | there | | round door's wife | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer court=Stimulus | | 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | door's wife | | | a high throne of gold and diamonds | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | | 4 | **wear** | past | wife | a great golden crown | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | wife *not said here* | a sceptre of gold and precious stones | | wife's hand | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sceptre=Patient | | 6 | **stand** | past | the doors of the hall *not said here* | six pages | | a row | | by wife | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent page=Theme by she=Destination | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/99/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/)