The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 133
Scarcely had they done this when Jack threw open another door, and this time it led to a hall filled with silver.
Who acts: Scarcely, Jack, door · What happens: do, throw, lead, fill · To what, where: this, door, time, hall
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, Jack, door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 threw | advmod |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | advcl |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 threw | xcomp |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 filled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 filled | cc |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 led | nsubj |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 21 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 done | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 silver | case |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Scarcely | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Jack | another door | open property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||
| 3 | lead | past | door | this time not said here | a hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent time=Theme to hall=Destination | |||
| 4 | fill | participle | Scarcely not said here | time | with silver | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with silver=Instrument |
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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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