The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 29

He had hardly uttered the words when fish and meat of all kinds appeared on it!

Who acts: Jack, fish · What happens: utter, appear · To what, where: words, kind

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, fish), 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 uttered	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uttered	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 uttered	advmod
4	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 uttered	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 appeared	mark
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 appeared	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 meat	cc
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fish	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 kinds	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 kinds	det
13	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 meat	nmod
14	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uttered	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 appeared	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 uttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	past · perfect	Jack	the words				hardly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	appear	past	fish and meat of all kinds			kind			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=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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