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title: Presently, opening a huge door, she entered a long, low, gloomy cham… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently, opening a huge door, she entered a long, low, gloomy chamber, lighted only by a narrow window which looked out over the back part of the castle. Who acts: Princess, narrow window. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s C
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 116

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Presently, opening a huge door, she entered a long, low, gloomy chamber, lighted only by a narrow window which looked out over the back part of the castle.

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**Who acts:** Princess, narrow window · **What happens:** open, enter, light, look out · **To what, where:** huge door, long low gloomy chamber, back part

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, narrow window), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:17:116
# text = Presently, opening a huge door, she entered a long, low, gloomy chamber, lighted only by a narrow window which looked out over the back part of the castle.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | a huge door |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | past | Princess | a long low gloomy chamber |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination |
| 3 | **light** | participle |  | a long low gloomy chamber *not said here* |  |  |  | by a narrow window | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look out** | past | a narrow window |  |  | the back part of the castle |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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