The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 1
Scarcely had she spoken before she felt a nice soft bed by her side, and there beside Lisa was one too.
Who acts: Scarcely, one · What happens: have, speak, feel, be · To what, where: nice soft bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, one), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 felt | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bed | det |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bed | amod |
| 10 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bed | amod |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 was | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 was | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 18 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 19 Lisa | case |
| 19 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 there | obl |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 was | nsubj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | participle | Scarcely | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | Scarcely | a nice soft bed | by Scarcely's side | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bed=Theme by side=Location | |||
| 4 | be | past | one | there | vn exist-47.1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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