The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 28

He had hardly settled himself when the servant entered the room, and, as she did so, the last bag of gold on the beam fell to the ground—for they had begun to fall directly the boy had taken the first one.

Who acts: door, servant, beams · What happens: settle, enter, do, fall, begin, take · To what, where: door, room, last bag, beam, boy

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, servant, beams), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 settled	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 settled	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 settled	advmod
4	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 settled	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 entered	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 servant	det
8	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	nsubj
9	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 settled	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 did	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 settled	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 did	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bag	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bag	det
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bag	amod
22	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 did	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 gold	case
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bag	nmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 beam	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 beam	det
27	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 did	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 ground	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 begun	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 begun	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 begun	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 begun	aux
36	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 fell	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 fall	mark
38	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 begun	xcomp
39	directly	directly	ADV	_	38 fall	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 boy	det
41	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 taken	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 taken	aux
43	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 fall	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 one	det
45	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	46 one	amod
46	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 taken	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 settled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	settle	past · perfect	door	door		hardly property	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme himself=Location
2	enter	past	the servant	the room			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
3	do	past	servant	the last bag of gold			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past			the beam	to the ground	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on beam=Location
5	begin	past · perfect	beams = beam				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	fall	to-infinitive	beams = beam not said here			directly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	take	past · perfect · passive		the boy			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme one=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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