The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 88

Scarcely had the thought crossed his brain before the ox appeared and began to drink up the water.

Who acts: Scarcely, thought, ox · What happens: have, cross, appear, begin, drink up · To what, where: brain, water

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, thought, ox), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thought	det
4	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossed	nsubj
5	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brain	nmod:poss
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossed	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 appeared	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ox	det
10	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 appeared	nsubj
11	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crossed	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 appeared	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 drink	mark
15	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 drink	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drink	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely		tree rules
2	cross	past	the thought	Scarcely's brain	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
3	appear	past	the ox		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	the ox not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	drink up	to-infinitive	the ox not said here	the water	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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