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title: When he reached the castle he found the outer gate open, quite as if… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he reached the castle he found the outer gate open, quite as if he were an expected guest, but no sooner had he stepped across the entry than the heavy door closed behind him with a bang, and was bolted with a huge iron bar, exactly as if a sentinel were doing his office and keeping watch, but 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 12

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When he reached the castle he found the outer gate open, quite as if he were an expected guest, but no sooner had he stepped across the entry than the heavy door closed behind him with a bang, and was bolted with a huge iron bar, exactly as if a sentinel were doing his office and keeping watch, but no human being was to be seen anywhere.

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**Who acts:** treasure, sentinel · **What happens:** reach, find, expect, be, have, step · **To what, where:** castle, outer gate, expected guest, treasure, entry, heavy door

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasure, sentinel), 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:pg7277:55:12
# text = When he reached the castle he found the outer gate open, quite as if he were an expected guest, but no sooner had he stepped across the entry than the heavy door closed behind him with a bang, and was bolted with a huge iron bar, exactly as if a sentinel were doing his office and keeping watch, but no human being was to be seen anywhere.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	stepped	step	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
28	across	across	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	entry	entry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
51	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
52	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
56	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	57	conj	_	_
62	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
64	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
65	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	66	det	_	_
66	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	mark	_	_
67	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	71	aux:pass	_	_
68	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	71	aux:pass	_	_
69	to	to	PART	TO	_	71	mark	_	_
70	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	71	aux:pass	_	_
71	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
72	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	71	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | treasure | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | treasure | the outer gate |  |  |  | open *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Topic |
| 3 | **expect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | treasure | a expected guest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | treasure *not said here* | treasure |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **step** | participle | treasure *not said here* |  |  | the entry than the heavy door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across entry=Trajectory |
| 7 | **close** | participle |  | the heavy door *not said here* |  |  |  | behind treasure; with a bang | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bang=Theme |
| 8 | **bolt** | past · passive | treasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a huge iron bar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V» |
| 9 | **do** | past · progressive | a sentinel | treasure's office |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Eventuality |
| 10 | **keep** | gerund | a sentinel *not said here* | watch |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
| 11 | **see** | gerund · passive | treasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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 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.

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