The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 89
He had scarcely put it on, when the whole castle began to shake violently, and the dragon flew up the steps into the hall.
Who acts: Paul, whole castle, dragon · What happens: put on, begin, shake, fly up · To what, where: shirt, steps, hall
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, whole castle, dragon), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 began | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 castle | amod |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 shake | mark |
| 14 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 14 shake | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flew | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dragon | det |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 began | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 flew | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 steps | det |
| 23 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 flew | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 hall | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hall | det |
| 26 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put on | past · perfect | Paul | shirt | scarcely property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the whole castle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shake | to-infinitive | the whole castle not said here | violently property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fly up | past | the dragon | the steps | the hall | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme into hall=Trajectory |
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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