The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 49
But no sooner had they reached the grass than she vanished.
Who acts: Foxes, mare · What happens: have, reach, vanish · To what, where: grass
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foxes, mare), 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 | _ | 6 reached | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 sooner | det |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | advcl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grass | det |
| 8 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 vanished | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 vanished | nsubj |
| 11 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Foxes = fox not said here | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | Foxes = fox | the grass | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent grass=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past | mare | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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