Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 52

He had hardly spoken, before the hawk swooped down and knocked the cup from his hand.

Who acts: hawk · What happens: speak, swoop down, knock · To what, where: cup · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hawk), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 spoken	advmod
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swooped	punct
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 swooped	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hawk	det
8	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swooped	nsubj
9	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 swooped	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knocked	cc
12	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 swooped	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cup	det
14	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knocked	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knocked	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect	hawk		hardly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swoop down	past	the hawk			tree rules
3	knock	past	the hawk not said here	the cup	from hawk's hand	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient from hand=Co-Patient

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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