The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 57

Scarcely had the first notes sounded than the hangman and his helper began to dance, and the louder grew the music the higher they capered, till at last they cried for mercy.

Who acts: Scarcely, first notes, helper, notes · What happens: have, sound, begin, dance, grow, caper · To what, where: music

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, first notes, helper, notes), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 notes	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 notes	amod
5	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sounded	nsubj
6	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 hangman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hangman	det
9	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounded	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 helper	nmod:poss
12	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 dance	mark
15	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 louder	det
19	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 grew	advmod
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 music	det
22	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 higher	det
24	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 grew	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 capered	nsubj
26	capered	caper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 higher	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 last	punct
28	till	till	ADP	_	30 last	case
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 last	case
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grew	conj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cried	nsubj
32	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 last	acl:relcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 mercy	case
34	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cried	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely			tree rules
2	sound	past	the first notes		than the hangman	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	begin	past	king's helper			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	dance	to-infinitive	king's helper not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	past		the music	the higher obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=Theme
6	caper	past	notes = note			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cry speech: express	past	notes = note		for mercy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mercy=Recipient

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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