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The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 61

For, no sooner had he flashed it before their eyes than down they fell at his feet quite helpless, and he killed them with one blow.

Who acts: King, sisters · What happens: have, flash, fall, kill · To what, where: memory, feet, sisters

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sisters), 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

markpunctdetadvmodadvclnsubjobjcasenmod:possoblmarkmarknsubjadvclcasenmod:possobladvmodamodpunctccnsubjconjobjcasenummodoblpunctrootForSCONJ,PUNCTnoDETsoonerADVhadVERBhePRONflashedVERBitPRONbeforeADPtheirPRONeyesNOUNthanSCONJdownADPtheyPRONfellVERBatADPhisPRONfeetNOUNquiteADVhelplessADJ,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONkilledVERBthemPRONwithADPoneNUMblowNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ForforSCONJ_5 hadmark
2,,PUNCT_5 hadpunct
3nonoDETPronType=Neg4 soonerdet
4soonersoonADVDegree=Cmp5 hadadvmod
5hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 flashedadvcl
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 flashednsubj
7flashedflashVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 flashedobj
9beforebeforeADP_11 eyescase
10theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 eyesnmod:poss
11eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur7 flashedobl
12thanthanSCONJ_15 fellmark
13downdownADP_15 fellmark
14theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs15 fellnsubj
15fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 flashedadvcl
16atatADP_18 feetcase
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 feetnmod:poss
18feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur15 fellobl
19quitequiteADV_20 helplessadvmod
20helplesshelplessADJDegree=Pos18 feetamod
21,,PUNCT_24 killedpunct
22andandCCONJ_24 killedcc
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 killednsubj
24killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 flashedconj
25themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs24 killedobj
26withwithADP_28 blowcase
27oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card28 blownummod
28blowblowNOUNNumber=Sing24 killedobl
29..PUNCT_7 flashedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastKing not said heresoon propertyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2flashpastKingmemorybefore sisters's eyesvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3fallpastsisters = sisterKing's feetvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location
4killpastKingsisters = sisterwith one blowvn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with blow=Instrument

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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