The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 107

Scarcely had he said this before they were standing by his side, but then he was very sorrowful, for the words which they had said to him came to his mind.

Who acts: Scarcely, Heavens, words · What happens: have, say, stand, be, come, mind · To what, where: this, words, Scarcely, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, Heavens, words), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 said	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 standing	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 standing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 standing	aux
9	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 side	nmod:poss
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 standing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sorrowful	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sorrowful	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 sorrowful	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sorrowful	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sorrowful	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 sorrowful	advmod
19	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 words	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 words	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 words	det
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 came	nsubj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 said	nsubj:pass
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	aux
27	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 words	acl:relcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obl
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 mind	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mind	nmod:poss
33	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Scarcely	this					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
3	stand	past · progressive	Heavens = heaven					by Scarcely's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
4	is	past	Scarcely				then	sorrowful property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the words	Scarcely				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to he=Recipient
6	come	past	the words			Scarcely's mind			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mind=Initial_Location
7	mind		Scarcely						nom mind «cognition 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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