The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 47
Scarcely were they out of sight than Paperarello took out his curl, and wished himself the best armour, the sharpest sword, and the swiftest horse in the world, and the next minute was riding as fast as he could to the field of battle.
Who acts: Scarcely, next minute · What happens: be, wish, ride · To what, where: Scarcely, field
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Scarcely, next minute), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 they | nmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 Paperarello | case |
| 8 | Paperarello | Paperarello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 curl | nmod:poss |
| 12 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wished | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wished | cc |
| 15 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 wished | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 armour | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 armour | amod |
| 19 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wished | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sword | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sword | det |
| 22 | sharpest | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 sword | amod |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 armour | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 horse | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 horse | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 27 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 horse | amod |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 horse | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 riding | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 riding | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 minute | det |
| 35 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 minute | amod |
| 36 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 riding | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 riding | aux |
| 38 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 fast | advmod |
| 40 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 riding | advmod |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 could | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 could | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 fast | advcl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 field | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 field | det |
| 46 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 riding | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 battle | case |
| 48 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 field | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Scarcely | take property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | Scarcely not said here | Scarcely | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ride | past · progressive | the next minute | the field of battle | fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to field=Trajectory |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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