The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 58
The door had scarcely closed on them than the bee disappeared, and a handsome youth stood in his place.
Who acts: bee, handsome youth · What happens: close, disappear, stand · To what, where: door, place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bee, handsome youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 closed | aux |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 closed | advmod |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 closed | obl |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 disappeared | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bee | det |
| 10 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 closed | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 youth | det |
| 15 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 youth | amod |
| 16 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 disappeared | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 place | nmod:poss |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past · perfect · passive | the door | on guards = guard; scarcely property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | the bee | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | a handsome youth | bee's place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
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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