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title: Early in the morning Eglantine was awakened by the sound of someone… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Early in the morning Eglantine was awakened by the sound of someone scratching at the door, and on opening her eyes she saw the white doe struggling to get out. Who acts: sound, Eglantine, white doe. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 10

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Early in the morning Eglantine was awakened by the sound of someone scratching at the door, and on opening her eyes she saw the white doe struggling to get out.

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**Who acts:** sound, Eglantine, white doe · **What happens:** awaken, scratch, open, see, struggle, get out · **To what, where:** morning, eyes, white doe

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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 (sound, Eglantine, white doe), 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:pg3027:24:10
# text = Early in the morning Eglantine was awakened by the sound of someone scratching at the door, and on opening her eyes she saw the white doe struggling to get out.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nmod	_	_
13	scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | past · passive | the sound of someone | the morning |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **scratch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the door | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 3 | **open** | gerund | Eglantine *not said here* | Eglantine's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | Eglantine | the white doe |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doe=Stimulus |
| 5 | **struggle** | gerund | the white doe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **get out** | to-infinitive | the white doe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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