The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 100
Scarcely, however, had she fallen asleep when the lake monsters began to make the most horrible noises just outside, while a small dragon crept in and terrified her so that she ran away, which was just what the dragon wanted!
Who acts: queen, lake monsters, small dragon, dragon · What happens: fall, begin, make, creep in, terrify, run away · To what, where: horrible noises, queen
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, lake monsters, small dragon, dragon), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fallen | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scarcely | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 fallen | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fallen | aux |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fallen | nsubj |
| 7 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fallen | xcomp |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 began | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monsters | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 monsters | compound |
| 12 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fallen | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 noises | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 horrible | advmod |
| 18 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 noises | amod |
| 19 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obj |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 outside | advmod |
| 21 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 15 make | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 crept | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 crept | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dragon | amod |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 crept | nsubj |
| 27 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fallen | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 crept | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 terrified | cc |
| 30 | terrified | terrify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 crept | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 terrified | obj |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 ran | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 so | fixed |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 ran | nsubj |
| 35 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 terrified | advcl |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 ran | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 what | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 what | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 what | cop |
| 40 | just | just | ADV | _ | 41 what | advmod |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 ran | obl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 dragon | det |
| 43 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wanted | nsubj |
| 44 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 what | acl:relcl |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | queen | asleep, however property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the lake monsters | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the lake monsters not said here | the horrible noises | outside property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||
| 4 | creep in | past | a small dragon | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | terrify | past | a small dragon not said here | queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | run away | past | queen | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | want | past | the dragon | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V 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: «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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