--- title: Suddenly the gilded, grated door flew open, an old Moor came out, bo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Suddenly the gilded, grated door flew open, an old Moor came out, bowed low before the forester with his hands meekly crossed before him, invited him by a wave of the hand to follow him, and both entered the garden. Who acts: gilded door, old Moor, both. 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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 (gilded door, old Moor, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:15:68 # text = Suddenly the gilded, grated door flew open, an old Moor came out, bowed low before the forester with his hands meekly crossed before him, invited him by a wave of the hand to follow him, and both entered the garden. 1 Suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 gilded gild VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 grated grate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 6 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Moor moor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 out out ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 bowed bow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 17 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 forester forester NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 meekly meekly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 crossed cross VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 26 before before ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 43 nsubj _ _ 43 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gild** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grate** | participle | | | | | | | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **fly** | past | the gilded door | | | | | open, suddenly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come out** | past | a old Moor | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **bow** | participle | a old Moor *not said here* | | | the forester with man's hands | | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before forester=Location | | 6 | **cross** | participle | | man's hands *not said here* | | | before man | meekly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **invite** | past | the gilded door *not said here* | | man | | | by a wave of the hand | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 8 | **follow** | to-infinitive | the gilded door *not said here* | man | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 9 | **enter** | past | both | the garden | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination | | 10 | **wave** | | | the hand | | | | | nom wave «event 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:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/69/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/)