The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 145

Hardly had the spinner begun to work when the Count began to feel his pains grow less.

Who acts: Count, pains, death · What happens: have, begin, work, feel, grow, pain · To what, where: spinner

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count, pains, death), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spinner	det
4	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spinner	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begun	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 began	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Count	det
10	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 work	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 feel	mark
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pains	nmod:poss
15	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grow	nsubj
16	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	ccomp
17	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 grow	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past		the spinner	hardly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spinner=Patient
2	begin	participle		the spinner not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	work	to-infinitive				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	the Count			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	feel	to-infinitive	the Count not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	grow	present	death's pains		less property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pain		death			nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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