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title: Scarcely had they done this when Jack threw open another door, and t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Scarcely had they done this when Jack threw open another door, and this time it led to a hall filled with silver. Who acts: Scarcely, Jack, door. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 133

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Scarcely had they done this when Jack threw open another door, and this time it led to a hall filled with silver.

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**Who acts:** Scarcely, Jack, door · **What happens:** do, throw, lead, fill · **To what, where:** this, door, time, hall

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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 (Scarcely, Jack, door), 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:pg3027:19:133
# text = Scarcely had they done this when Jack threw open another door, and this time it led to a hall filled with silver.
1	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Scarcely | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **throw** | past | Jack | another door |  |  |  | open *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past | door | this time *not said here* |  | a hall |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent time=Theme to hall=Destination |
| 4 | **fill** | participle | Scarcely *not said here* |  |  |  | time | with silver | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with silver=Instrument |

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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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