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The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 84

After giving this order he went to his own room, but he had scarcely got into it when there was a clap of thunder which made the ground shake, and the Fairy Truth appeared suddenly before him.

Who acts: brother, clap, ground, Fairy Truth · What happens: give, go, get, be, make, shake · To what, where: order, own room, room, ground, thunder

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, clap, ground, Fairy Truth), 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

markadvcldetobjnsubjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccnsubjauxadvmodparataxiscaseobladvmodexpladvcldetnsubjcasenmodnsubjacl:relcldetobjxcomppunctccdetcompoundnsubjconjadvmodcaseoblpunctrootAfterSCONJgivingVERBthisDETorderNOUNhePRONwentVERBtoADPhisPRONownADJroomNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONhadAUXscarcelyADVgotVERBintoADPitPRONwhenADVtherePRONwasVERBaDETclapNOUNofADPthunderNOUNwhichPRONmadeVERBtheDETgroundNOUNshakeVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETFairyPROPNTruthPROPNappearedVERBsuddenlyADVbeforeADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_2 givingmark
2givinggiveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 wentadvcl
3thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 orderdet
4orderorderNOUNNumber=Sing2 givingobj
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 wentnsubj
6wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7totoADP_10 roomcase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 roomnmod:poss
9ownownADJDegree=Pos10 roomamod
10roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing6 wentobl
11,,PUNCT_16 gotpunct
12butbutCCONJ_16 gotcc
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 gotnsubj
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 gotaux
15scarcelyscarcelyADV_16 gotadvmod
16gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part6 wentparataxis
17intointoADP_18 itcase
18ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 gotobl
19whenwhenADVPronType=Int21 wasadvmod
20theretherePRONPronType=Dem21 wasexpl
21wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 gotadvcl
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 clapdet
23clapclapNOUNNumber=Sing21 wasnsubj
24ofofADP_25 thundercase
25thunderthunderNOUNNumber=Sing23 clapnmod
26whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel27 madensubj
27mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 clapacl:relcl
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 grounddet
29groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing27 madeobj
30shakeshakeVERBVerbForm=Inf27 madexcomp
31,,PUNCT_36 appearedpunct
32andandCCONJ_36 appearedcc
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 Truthdet
34FairyFairyPROPNNumber=Sing35 Truthcompound
35TruthTruthPROPNNumber=Sing36 appearednsubj
36appearedappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 wentconj
37suddenlysuddenlyADV_36 appearedadvmod
38beforebeforeADP_39 himcase
39himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 appearedobl
40..PUNCT_6 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givegerundbrother not said herethis ordervn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2gopastbrotherbrother's own roomvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
3getpast · perfectbrotherroomscarcely propertyvn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
4bepasta clap of thundertherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5makepasta clap of thunderthe groundtree rules
6shakeinfinitivethe ground not said herevn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7appearpastthe Fairy Truthbefore brothersuddenly propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
8clapthundernom clap «event transitive»: of=patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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