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title: “And then--and then I opened the door, and the room was filled with… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “And then--and then I opened the door, and the room was filled with bodies and skeletons of poor dead women, all stained with their blood.” Who acts: Mr. Fox. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 5

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“And then--and then I opened the door, and the room was filled with bodies and skeletons of poor dead women, all stained with their blood.”

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**Who acts:** Mr. Fox · **What happens:** open, fill, stain · **To what, where:** door, room, all

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Fox), 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:pg7439:33:5
# text = “And then--and then I opened the door, and the room was filled with bodies and skeletons of poor dead women, all stained with their blood.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** *in a quote* | past | Mr. Fox *= fox* | the door |  |  | then; then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the room |  |  |  | with bodies and skeletons of poor dead women | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with body=Instrument |
| 3 | **stain** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  | with women's blood | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=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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