The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 66
Scarcely had they disappeared when the ogress came back, and found everything ready just as she had ordered.
Who acts: Scarcely, oxen, ogress · What happens: have, disappear, come back, find, order · To what, where: everything
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, oxen, ogress), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disappeared | nsubj |
| 4 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ogress | det |
| 7 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappeared | advcl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 everything | amod |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 ordered | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 ordered | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ordered | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ordered | aux |
| 19 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 found | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | disappear | past | oxen = ox | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come back | past | the ogress | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | everything | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | |||||
| 5 | order | past · perfect | ogress | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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