The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 75

Hardly had he struck the first notes than his wife sat up; then got on her feet and danced.

Who acts: One, wife · What happens: have, strike, sit up, get, dance · To what, where: first notes, feet

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, wife), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 notes	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 notes	amod
7	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 struck	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 sat	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 got	advmod
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 feet	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 got	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 danced	cc
20	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past					hardly property	tree rules
2	strike	past	One	the first notes				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Patient
3	sit up	past	One's wife					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	past			wife's feet	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on foot=Source
5	dance	past						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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