More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 41

No sooner has he flung the head in the well, than up springs one of the finest young gentlemen you would wish to see; and instead of the old house and the frightful-looking place, it was changed into a beautiful hall and grounds.

Who acts: man, you · What happens: have, fling, wish, see, look, change · To what, where: head, well, finest young gentlemen, beautiful hall

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 has	advmod
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flung	nsubj
5	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 has	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flung	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flung	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 springs	punct
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 springs	case
13	up	up	ADP	_	14 springs	case
14	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flung	obl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 springs	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 gentlemen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gentlemen	det
18	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 gentlemen	amod
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gentlemen	amod
20	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 wish	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 wish	aux
23	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 gentlemen	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wish	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 changed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 changed	cc
28	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	32 house	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 instead	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 house	amod
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 changed	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 place	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 place	det
35	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 looking	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 frightful	punct
37	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 place	amod
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 house	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 house	punct
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 changed	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 changed	aux:pass
42	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 has	conj
43	into	into	ADP	_	46 hall	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 hall	det
45	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 hall	amod
46	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 changed	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 grounds	cc
48	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	46 hall	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present					soon property	tree rules
2	fling	past	man	the head	the well	spring		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme in well=Destination
3	wish	would	you	the finest young gentlemen not said here				tree rules
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	change	past · passive		head			into a beautiful hall and grounds result; instead the old house and the looking place	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into hall=Result

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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