The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 74

With quicker and lighter step he crossed the bridge of clouds, and hardly had he reached the other side than his friend stood before him and greeted him cheerfully.

Who acts: Prince, friend · What happens: cross, have, reach, stand, greet · To what, where: bridge, other side, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, friend), 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	With	with	ADP	_	5 step	case
2	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 step	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lighter	cc
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 quicker	conj
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crossed	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 crossed	nsubj
7	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crossed	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 clouds	case
11	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bridge	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 had	advmod
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crossed	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reached	nsubj
17	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 side	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 side	amod
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obj
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 stood	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 friend	nmod:poss
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	nsubj
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 reached	advcl
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stood	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 greeted	cc
28	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stood	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 greeted	obj
30	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	28 greeted	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Prince	the bridge of clouds			with quicker step	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient
2	have	past	Prince not said here				hardly property	tree rules
3	reach	past	Prince	the other side				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme
4	stand	past	Prince's friend			before Prince		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
5	greet speech: greet	past	Prince's friend not said here		Prince		cheerfully property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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