Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 69
Scarcely were they up, than who should come by but the very rogues they were looking for.
Who acts: Scarcely, rogues · What happens: be up, come, look
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, rogues), 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 were | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | 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 up | nsubj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 were | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 were | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 looking | mark |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 looking | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rogues | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 rogues | advmod |
| 14 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looking | nsubj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looking | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looking | aux |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 come | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 looking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be up | past | Scarcely | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | should | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look | past · progressive | the rogues | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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