The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 21

But no sooner was he well in, than the young man clapped on the lid and called out, ‘Now press hard, just to see if he will be able to get out.’

Who acts: plenty, you · What happens: be, clap, call out, press, see, get out · To what, where: young man, lid

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, you), 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 sooner	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 press	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 in	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 in	nsubj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 in	advmod
7	in	in	ADV	_	3 sooner	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sooner	obl
13	clapped	clap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 man	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 lid	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lid	det
16	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clapped	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 called	cc
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 clapped	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 called	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 press	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 press	punct
22	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 press	advmod
23	press	press	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 press	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
26	just	just	ADV	_	28 see	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 press	conj
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 able	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 able	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 able	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 able	cop
33	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 see	ccomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 get	mark
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 able	xcomp
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 get	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 press	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 press	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	plenty				in, well property	tree rules
2	clap	participle		the young man not said here	the lid			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lid=Location
3	call out speech: assert	participle						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	press	imperative	you not said here			now	hard, soon property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	see	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a condition, not said to happen	future	plenty				able property	tree rules
7	get out	to-infinitive	plenty not said here				out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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