The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 179

Thereupon they both went to the wood with the child; scarcely were they there when the reindeer appeared and nursed the child as before.

Who acts: ways, reindeer · What happens: go, be, appear, nurse · To what, where: wood, child

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 (ways, reindeer), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 child	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 there	punct
12	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	15 there	advmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 there	cop
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 there	nsubj
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	parataxis
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 appeared	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 reindeer	det
18	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 appeared	nsubj
19	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 there	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 nursed	cc
21	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 appeared	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nursed	obj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 before	case
25	before	before	ADV	_	21 nursed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	ways = way		the wood	with the child; thereupon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
2	is	past	ways = way			scarcely, there property	tree rules
3	appear	past	the reindeer				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	nurse	past	the reindeer not said here	the child			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary

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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