The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 93

But hardly had he opened the door of the cottage when he was almost blinded by the light that filled it; and he remembered what he had been told about the star on the forehead of the princess.

Who acts: boy, light · What happens: have, open, blind, fill, remember, tell · To what, where: door, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, light), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cottage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cottage	det
10	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	nmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 blinded	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 blinded	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 blinded	aux:pass
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 blinded	advmod
15	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cottage	acl:relcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 light	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blinded	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 filled	nsubj
20	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 light	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 filled	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 remembered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 remembered	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 remembered	nsubj
25	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 told	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 told	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 told	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 told	aux:pass
30	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 remembered	ccomp
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 star	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 star	det
33	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	obl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 forehead	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 forehead	det
36	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 star	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 princess	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 princess	det
39	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 forehead	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past			hardly property	tree rules
2	open	past	boy	the door of the cottage		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	blind	past · passive	the light	boy	almost property	tree rules
4	fill	past	the light	door		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	remember	past	boy			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		boy	about the star on the forehead of the princess	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=Topic

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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