The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 10
The crows had hardly done speaking when away they flew.
Who acts: crows · What happens: do, speak, fly · To what, where: crows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crows), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crows | det |
| 2 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 done | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 away | mark |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 speaking | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 away | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect · passive | the crows | hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | away property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | crows = crow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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