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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 85

Hardly had they disappeared, when the Red Knight stole cautiously up, and could hardly believe his eyes when he saw the king’s sword on the bank.

Who acts: waves, Red Knight, Knight · What happens: have, disappear, steal, believe, see · To what, where: eyes, sword, bank

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 (waves, Red Knight, Knight), 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

advmodnsubjccomppunctadvmoddetflatnsubjparataxisadvmodadvmodpunctccauxadvmodparataxisnmod:possobjadvmodnsubjadvcldetnmod:posscaseobjcasedetoblpunctrootHardlyADVhadVERBtheyPRONdisappearedVERB,PUNCTwhenADVtheDETRedPROPNKnightPROPNstoleVERBcautiouslyADVupADV,PUNCTandCCONJcouldAUXhardlyADVbelieveVERBhisPRONeyesNOUNwhenADVhePRONsawVERBtheDETkingNOUN’sPARTswordNOUNonADPtheDETbankNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HardlyhardlyADV_2 hadadvmod
2hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 disappearednsubj
4disappeareddisappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 hadccomp
5,,PUNCT_10 stolepunct
6whenwhenADVPronType=Int10 stoleadvmod
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Knightdet
8RedRedPROPNNumber=Sing9 Knightflat
9KnightKnightPROPNNumber=Sing10 stolensubj
10stolestealVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 hadparataxis
11cautiouslycautiouslyADV_12 upadvmod
12upupADV_10 stoleadvmod
13,,PUNCT_17 believepunct
14andandCCONJ_17 believecc
15couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 believeaux
16hardlyhardlyADV_17 believeadvmod
17believebelieveVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin2 hadparataxis
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 eyesnmod:poss
19eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur17 believeobj
20whenwhenADVPronType=Int22 sawadvmod
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 sawnsubj
22sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 believeadvcl
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 kingdet
24kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing26 swordnmod:poss
25’s'sPART_24 kingcase
26swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing22 sawobj
27ononADP_29 bankcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 bankdet
29bankbankNOUNNumber=Sing22 sawobl
30..PUNCT_2 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepasthardly propertytree rules
2disappearpastwaves = wavevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3stealpastthe Red Knightvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4believecouldKnight's eyeshardly propertyvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
5seepastKnightthe king's swordthe bankvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus

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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