The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 69

And no sooner had they done this, than Koumongoé flowed back again up the hill, and entered the hut.

Who acts: men, Koumongoé · What happens: do, flow, enter · To what, where: this, hut

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Koumongoé), 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	_	6 done	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 done	advmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 done	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flowed	punct
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 flowed	mark
10	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 flowed	nsubj
11	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	parataxis
12	back	back	ADV	_	13 again	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 flowed	advmod
14	up	up	ADP	_	16 hill	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hill	det
16	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flowed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 entered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 entered	cc
19	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flowed	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hut	det
21	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 entered	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	men = man	this		soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	flow	past	Koumongoé		again	up the hill	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	enter	past	Koumongoé not said here	the hut			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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