The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 96

Scarcely had he seen Eisenkopf than he darted like the wind to the stable and flung himself on the horse’s back.

Who acts: Scarcely · What happens: see, dart, fling · To what, where: Eisenkopf, stable, Scarcely, back

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely), 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	4 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 darted	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 darted	nsubj
8	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	advcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 wind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 darted	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 stable	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stable	det
14	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 darted	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flung	cc
16	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 darted	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 flung	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	22 back	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 back	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 horse	case
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flung	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	Scarcely	Eisenkopf			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eisenkopf=Stimulus
2	dart	past	Scarcely		the stable	like the wind	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stable=Destination
3	fling	past	Scarcely not said here	Scarcely	the horse's back		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on back=Destination

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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