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title: As before, a bright light leapt out directly the lid was raised, but… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As before, a bright light leapt out directly the lid was raised, but it did not spring from the lustre of jewels, but from hot flames, which darted along the walls and burnt up the cottage and all that was in it and the mother and daughter as well. Who acts: bright light, lid, that. A sentence of «T
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 65

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As before, a bright light leapt out directly the lid was raised, but it did not spring from the lustre of jewels, but from hot flames, which darted along the walls and burnt up the cottage and all that was in it and the mother and daughter as well.

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**Who acts:** bright light, lid, that · **What happens:** leapt out, raise, do, dart, burnt up, be · **To what, where:** lid, lustre, hot flames, cottage

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright light, lid, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:11:65
# text = As before, a bright light leapt out directly the lid was raised, but it did not spring from the lustre of jewels, but from hot flames, which darted along the walls and burnt up the cottage and all that was in it and the mother and daughter as well.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	darted	dart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
33	along	along	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
52	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	49	advmod	_	_
53	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	52	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leapt out** | past | a bright light |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **raise** | past · passive |  | the lid |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | lid |  |  | the lustre of jewels | spring |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dart** | past |  |  |  | hot flames |  | along the walls | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from flame=Trajectory |
| 5 | **burnt up** | participle |  | the cottage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | that |  |  | lid |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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