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title: He saw a door which stood ajar, and through which he distinctly hear… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw a door which stood ajar, and through which he distinctly heard sighs, mingled with sobs. Who acts: sound, door. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 105

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He saw a door which stood ajar, and through which he distinctly heard sighs, mingled with sobs.

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**Who acts:** sound, door · **What happens:** see, stand, hear, mingle · **To what, where:** door, sighs

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, door), 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:pg7277:7:105
# text = He saw a door which stood ajar, and through which he distinctly heard sighs, mingled with sobs.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	ajar	ajar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sobs	sob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | sound | a door |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a door |  |  |  |  | ajar *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | sound | sighs |  |  |  | distinctly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sigh=Stimulus |
| 4 | **mingle** | participle | sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with sobs | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sob=Co-Patient |

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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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