The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 242
But hardly had the first bite passed her lips than she fell down dead on the ground.
Who acts: first bite, bite · What happens: have, pass, fall down · To what, where: lips, ground
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first bite, bite), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bite | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 bite | amod |
| 6 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lips | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passed | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 fell | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 dead | advmod |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fell | xcomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | hardly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | the first bite | bite's lips | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lip=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fall down | past | bite | the ground | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=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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