The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 129

Scarcely had she spoken when a golden hemlock sprang up from her, and stood upon the bridge.

Who acts: Scarcely, golden hemlock · What happens: have, speak, spring up, stand · To what, where: bridge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, golden hemlock), 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 sprang	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hemlock	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hemlock	amod
8	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sprang	nsubj
9	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 sprang	compound:prt
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sprang	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stood	cc
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 bridge	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bridge	det
18	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely			tree rules
2	speak speech: other	participle	Scarcely			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spring up	past	a golden hemlock		from Scarcely	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past	Scarcely not said here	the bridge		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bridge=Location

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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