The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 77

Scarcely had she opened the door when the cat was outside, and the watch into the bargain.

Who acts: Scarcely, cat · What happens: have, open, be · To what, where: watch, door

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, cat), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 outside	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 outside	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 outside	cop
11	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 opened	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 watch	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 watch	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 watch	det
15	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 bargain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bargain	det
18	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watch	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely	the watch into the bargain		tree rules
2	open	past	Scarcely	the door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	is	past	the cat		outside property	tree rules

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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