Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 14

Scarcely were the words out of the boy’s mouth, when everything was there that he had wished for.

Who acts: Scarcely, everything · What happens: be, wish · To what, where: words, mouth

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, everything), 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 words	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 words	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mouth	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 boy	case
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 there	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 there	advmod
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 there	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 there	cop
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 mouth	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 wished	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wished	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wished	aux
19	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 there	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	19 wished	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 words	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Scarcely	the words	the boy's mouth		tree rules
2	is	past	everything			there property	tree rules
3	wish	past · perfect	Scarcely				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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