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title: The folding doors swung quickly back, and left him standing behind t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The folding doors swung quickly back, and left him standing behind the pillar, in the solitude of the outer hall. Who acts: folding doors. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 67

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The folding doors swung quickly back, and left him standing behind the pillar, in the solitude of the outer hall.

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**Who acts:** folding doors · **What happens:** swing back, leave, stand · **To what, where:** Eurylochus, pillar

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folding doors), 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:pg976:16:67
# text = The folding doors swung quickly back, and left him standing behind the pillar, in the solitude of the outer hall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	folding	folding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing back** | past | the folding doors |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the folding doors *not said here* | Eurylochus |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | the folding doors *not said here* |  |  | the pillar |  | in the solitude of the outer hall | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind pillar=Location |

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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:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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