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title: Put the Key in the Keyhole, which it fits exactly, unlock the door a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Put the Key in the Keyhole, which it fits exactly, unlock the door and WALK IN. Who acts: you, Keyhole. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _how to Get Into This Book._, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, \_how to Get Into This Book.\_, sentence 4

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Put the Key in the Keyhole, which it fits exactly, unlock the door and WALK IN.

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**Who acts:** you, Keyhole · **What happens:** put, fit, unlock, walk in · **To what, where:** Key, Keyhole, door

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_how to Get Into This Book.\_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Keyhole), 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:pg7439:2:4
# text = Put the Key in the Keyhole, which it fits exactly, unlock the door and WALK IN.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Key	Key	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Keyhole	Keyhole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	unlock	unlock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	WALK	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	IN	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Key |  | the Keyhole |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent key=Theme in keyhole=Destination |
| 2 | **fit** | present | the Keyhole |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **unlock** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **walk in** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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