The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 26

Scarcely had he left the town behind him when he came to a broad river which no man might pass, for he was standing at the end of the world, and this was the river which flowed round it.

Who acts: Scarcely, man, this, river · What happens: have, leave, come, pass, stand, be · To what, where: town, broad river, end, river

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, man, this, river), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 river	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 river	det
14	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 river	amod
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 pass	obj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pass	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pass	aux
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 river	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 standing	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 standing	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 standing	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 standing	aux
25	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 end	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 end	det
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 standing	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 end	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 river	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 river	cc
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 river	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 river	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 river	det
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 flowed	nsubj
39	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 river	acl:relcl
40	round	round	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 flowed	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely					tree rules
2	leave	past	Scarcely	the town			behind prince	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent town=Theme behind he=Location
3	come	past	Scarcely		a broad river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
4	pass	might	no man	a broad river				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory
5	stand	past · progressive	Scarcely			at the end of the world		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location
6	is a	past	this	the river				tree rules
7	flow	past	the river				round river	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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