The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 135

They had hardly finished, when Jack opened yet a third door, and all three fell back in amazement, for this room as a mass of gold, so bright that their eyes grew sore as they looked at it.

Who acts: provisions, Jack, three, eyes · What happens: finish, open, fall back, grow, look · To what, where: amazement

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 (provisions, Jack, three, eyes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 finished	advmod
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 opened	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 opened	advmod
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 opened	nsubj
8	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	parataxis
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	12 door	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 door	det
11	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 door	amod
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fell	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 three	det
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	advcl
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 fell	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 amazement	case
20	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 room	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 room	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 room	det
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 mass	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mass	det
27	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 room	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mass	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bright	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 bright	advmod
32	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fell	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 grew	mark
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eyes	nmod:poss
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 grew	nsubj
36	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bright	advcl
37	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grew	xcomp
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 looked	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 looked	nsubj
40	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 grew	advcl
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 looked	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	provisions = provision		hardly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	open	past	Jack			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall back	past	all three	amazement	for this room as a mass of gold	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in amazement=Location
4	grow	past	provisions's eyes		sore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	past	provisions = provision		at door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

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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