The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 34

Scarcely had he lain down than the mosquitos began to buzz about and bite him, and he rolled from side to side trying to catch them, which he never could do, though they always seemed to be close to his nose.

Who acts: Scarcely, mosquitos · What happens: lie down, begin, buzz about, bite, roll, try · To what, where: Scarcely, side, mosquitos

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, mosquitos), 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	4 lain	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lain	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lain	nsubj
4	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lain	compound:prt
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 began	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mosquitos	det
8	mosquitos	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lain	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 buzz	mark
11	buzz	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 buzz	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bite	cc
14	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 buzz	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bite	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rolled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rolled	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rolled	nsubj
19	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lain	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 side	case
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rolled	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 side	case
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rolled	obl
24	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 rolled	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 catch	mark
26	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 trying	xcomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 catch	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 do	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 do	advmod
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 catch	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seemed	punct
35	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 seemed	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seemed	nsubj
37	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 seemed	advmod
38	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 do	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	41 close	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 close	cop
41	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 seemed	xcomp
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 nose	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 nose	nmod:poss
44	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 close	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past · perfect	Scarcely				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the mosquitos				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	buzz about	to-infinitive	the mosquitos not said here			about property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bite	present	the mosquitos not said here	Scarcely			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	roll	past	Scarcely		side	to side	vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location to side=Destination
6	try	gerund	Scarcely not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Scarcely not said here	mosquitos = mosquito			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	not do	could	Scarcely				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
9	seem	past	mosquitos = mosquito			always property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
10	is	to-infinitive	mosquitos = mosquito not said here			to Scarcely's nose; close property	tree rules

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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