The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 11

Scarcely had she finished speaking when she saw beside her a little silver tray with a gilt coffee-pot, two cups of rare porcelain, a sugar basin of fine crystal, silver sugar tongs, and some good fresh white bread.

Who acts: Scarcely, some · What happens: have, finish, speak, see, bread · To what, where: little silver tray · 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, some), 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 finished	nsubj
4	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 finished	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speaking	ccomp
9	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tray	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tray	amod
13	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tray	compound
14	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	20 pot	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pot	det
17	gilt	gilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pot	amod
18	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pot	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 coffee	punct
20	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tray	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cups	punct
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 cups	nummod
23	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pot	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 porcelain	case
25	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 porcelain	amod
26	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cups	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 basin	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 basin	det
29	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 basin	compound
30	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tray	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 crystal	case
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 crystal	amod
33	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 basin	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tongs	punct
35	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tongs	amod
36	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tongs	compound
37	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tray	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 bread	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 bread	cc
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 bread	nsubj
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 bread	amod
42	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 bread	amod
43	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 bread	amod
44	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely			tree rules
2	finish	past	Scarcely			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other	gerund	Scarcely not said here			tree rules
4	see	past	Scarcely	a little silver tray and a sugar basin of fine crystal and silver sugar tongs	beside fairy; with a gilt coffee pot and two cups of rare porcelain	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tray=Stimulus
5	bread		some			tree rules

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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