The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 62

Scarcely was the giant out of sight next morning when Ian Direach seized the falcon, and throwing a cloth over her head hastened with her to the door.

Who acts: Scarcely, Ian, throwing · What happens: be, seize, throw, hasten · To what, where: falcon, cloth, head, door

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, Ian, throwing), 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 giant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 giant	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	9 morning	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 morning	case
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 morning	compound
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 morning	amod
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giant	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 seized	advmod
11	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 seized	nsubj
12	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ian	flat
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 morning	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 falcon	det
15	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seized	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hastened	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hastened	cc
18	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 hastened	csubj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cloth	det
20	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throwing	obj
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throwing	obl
24	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 giant	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hastened	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 door	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hastened	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 giant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Scarcely			morning	giant property	tree rules
2	seize	past	Ian	the falcon				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme
3	throw	gerund		a cloth	Scarcely's head			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over head=Destination
4	hasten	participle	throwing		the door		with Scarcely	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination

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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