The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 39

But hardly had the castle gates closed on the prince than the hare sprang out of the bushes as before, and led the huntsman up hill and down dale, till they reached the mill.

Who acts: hare, Prince · What happens: have, close, spring out, lead, reach · To what, where: castle gates, bushes, huntsman, mill

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, Prince), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gates	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gates	compound
6	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
7	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gates	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 closed	obl
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 sprang	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hare	det
13	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sprang	nsubj
14	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 closed	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 bushes	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 bushes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bushes	det
18	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sprang	obl
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 before	case
20	before	before	ADV	_	14 sprang	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 led	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 led	cc
23	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 huntsman	det
25	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 led	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 huntsman	compound
27	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 huntsman	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dale	cc
29	down	down	ADP	_	30 dale	case
30	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 huntsman	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 reached	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 reached	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 reached	nsubj
34	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 led	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 mill	det
36	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reached	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past		the castle gates	hardly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient
2	close	participle		the castle gates not said here	on the prince	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	spring out	past	the hare	the bushes		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bush=Theme
4	lead	past		the huntsman and hill and dale		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme
5	reach	past	Prince	the mill		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mill=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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