The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 99
Scarcely was she in her usual place behind the stove when her father came home with the witch.
Who acts: Scarcely, father · What happens: be, come · To what, where: usual place
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, father), 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 | 7 place | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 place | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 6 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 stove | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stove | det |
| 10 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | nmod |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | advcl |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 witch | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 witch | det |
| 18 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Scarcely | Scarcely's usual place | behind the stove | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | Scarcely's father | with the witch; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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