The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 74
But he had scarcely left the house when the witch began to rage as furiously as ever, and never stopped till her brother Ironhead appeared.
Who acts: Ring, witch, brother · What happens: leave, begin, rage, not stop, appear · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring, witch, brother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 left | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 began | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rage | mark |
| 13 | rage | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 furiously | advmod |
| 15 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 13 rage | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 ever | case |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 furiously | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stopped | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stopped | cc |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 stopped | advmod |
| 21 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | parataxis |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 appeared | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appeared | nsubj |
| 25 | Ironhead | Ironhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 brother | appos |
| 26 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stopped | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | Ring | the house | scarcely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the witch | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | rage | to-infinitive | the witch not said here | furiously property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not stop | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | appear | past | Signy's brother | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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