The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 21

Scarcely had they entered the palace when the thunder crashed, the roof burst into a blaze, the ceiling split in twain, and in flew an eagle.

Who acts: Scarcely, sisters, thunder, roof · What happens: have, enter, crash, burst, split, fly · To what, where: palace, blaze, ceiling, twain, eagle

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, sisters, thunder, roof), 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 crashed	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thunder	det
9	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crashed	nsubj
10	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 burst	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roof	det
13	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burst	nsubj
14	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 blaze	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 blaze	det
17	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burst	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ceiling	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ceiling	det
20	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blaze	appos
21	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 ceiling	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 twain	case
23	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 split	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flew	cc
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	27 flew	mark
27	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 burst	conj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 eagle	det
29	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flew	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely			tree rules
2	enter	past	sisters = sister	the palace		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination
3	crash	past	the thunder			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	burst	past	the roof		a blaze	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	split	participle		the ceiling not said here	twain	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fly	past	the roof not said here	a eagle		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eagle=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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