The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 30

But the words were hardly out of his mouth when he found that it was a hare that he was holding by the paw.

Who acts: words, prince, mouth · What happens: be, find, hold · To what, where: mouth, hare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, prince, mouth), 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	_	9 mouth	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mouth	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mouth	cop
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	9 mouth	advmod
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 found	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mouth	acl:relcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 hare	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hare	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hare	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hare	det
17	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	ccomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 holding	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 holding	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 holding	aux
21	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 hare	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 paw	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 paw	det
24	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 holding	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mouth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the words		prince's mouth	hardly property	tree rules
2	find	past	prince				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	mouth	a hare			tree rules
4	hold	past · progressive	prince	a hare not said here		by the paw	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hare=Theme by paw=Location

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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