The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 111

Hardly, however, were they set free, than a voice of thunder made the two sisters jump, while the little boy clung tightly round his mother's neck.

Who acts: birds, voice, two sisters, little boy · What happens: be, make, jump, cling

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, voice, two sisters, little boy), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	7 set	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hardly	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	7 set	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 set	cop
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 set	nsubj
7	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 set	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 voice	det
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 thunder	case
14	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 voice	nmod
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 set	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sisters	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sisters	nummod
18	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 jump	nsubj
19	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 made	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 clung	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 clung	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clung	nsubj
25	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	conj
26	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	25 clung	advmod
27	round	round	ADP	_	31 neck	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 neck	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 mother	case
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clung	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	birds = bird	free, hardly, however, set property	tree rules
2	make	past	a voice of thunder		tree rules
3	jump	present	the two sisters		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cling	past	the little boy	round boy's mother's neck; tightly property	vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=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 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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