The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 7

The door had hardly closed behind the old woman when the sun sank below the horizon, and Desiree became a girl again.

Who acts: sun, Desiree · What happens: close, sink, become · To what, where: door, horizon, girl

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Desiree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 closed	aux
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 closed	advmod
5	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closed	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 sank	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sank	nsubj
13	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 closed	advcl
14	below	below	ADP	_	16 horizon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horizon	det
16	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sank	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 became	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 became	cc
19	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 became	nsubj
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 closed	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 girl	det
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 became	xcomp
23	again	again	ADV	_	20 became	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past · perfect · passive		the door			behind the old woman; hardly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	sink	past	the sun		the horizon			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	become	past	Desiree	a girl		again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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