The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 9

Hardly had they got into the palace, when the thunder pealed, the ceiling split open, and into the room where they were came flying a falcon bright.

Who acts: sisters, thunder, ceiling · What happens: have, get, peal, split, be, fly · To what, where: palace, room, falcon

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 (sisters, thunder, ceiling), 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pealed	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 pealed	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thunder	det
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pealed	nsubj
12	pealed	peal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 palace	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 split	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ceiling	det
15	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 split	nsubj
16	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pealed	conj
17	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 split	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 room	det
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 came	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 came	cop
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
27	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 came	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 falcon	det
29	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flying	obj
30	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 flying	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past				hardly property	tree rules
2	get	past	sisters = sister		the palace		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into palace=Destination
3	peal	participle	the thunder				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	split	past	the ceiling			open property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	sisters = sister		the room	come property	tree rules
6	fly	gerund	sisters = sister not said here	a falcon		bright property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location falcon=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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