The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 50

And hardly was the last spadeful of earth flung over the coffin than she married a noble from a neighbouring country, and got him made king instead of the young prince.

Who acts: spadeful, last spadeful · What happens: be, fling, marry, neighbour, get, make · To what, where: last spadeful, earth, coffin, noble, neighbouring country, promise

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spadeful, last spadeful), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 spadeful	cc
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 spadeful	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spadeful	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spadeful	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spadeful	amod
6	spadeful	spadeful	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 earth	case
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spadeful	nmod
9	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 earth	acl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 coffin	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coffin	det
12	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flung	obl
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 married	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 married	nsubj
15	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flung	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 noble	det
17	noble	noble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 married	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 country	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 country	det
20	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 country	amod
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 noble	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 got	cc
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 married	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	obj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
28	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	32 prince	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 instead	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 prince	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 prince	amod
32	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the last spadeful		of earth; hardly property	tree rules
2	fling	participle		earth not said here	the coffin		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over coffin=Destination
3	marry	past	spadeful	a noble	a neighbouring country		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noble=Patient
4	neighbour	gerund					tree rules
5	get	past	spadeful not said here	promise			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	make	past	the last spadeful	king		instead the young prince	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/20/50/