The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 37

And the words were hardly out of his mouth, when 'Pif! pah!' and the two new- comers were stretched dead beside him.

Who acts: words · What happens: be, stretch · To what, where: mouth, two new comers

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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	And	and	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pah	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 pah	advmod
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 Pif	punct
13	Pif	Pif	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 pah	compound
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Pif	punct
15	pah	pah	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mouth	appos
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 pah	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 pah	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stretched	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 comers	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 comers	nummod
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 comers	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 new	punct
23	comers	comer	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stretched	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stretched	aux:pass
25	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 mouth	conj
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stretched	xcomp
27	beside	beside	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dead	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mouth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the words			nicer's mouth		hardly property	tree rules
2	stretch	past · passive		the two new comers				dead property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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