The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 26

She had hardly left him when the two black wolves appeared: but the Sun-Hero beat them off with his sword, and they retired, only, however, to reappear in a very short time.

Who acts: girl, two black wolves, Sun Hero, wolves · What happens: leave, appear, beat off, retire, reappear · To what, where: castle, wolves

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, two black wolves, Sun Hero, wolves), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	iobj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 appeared	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolves	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 wolves	nummod
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wolves	amod
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 appeared	nsubj
11	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	advcl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 beat	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 beat	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Hero	det
15	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Hero	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Sun	punct
17	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 beat	nsubj
18	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beat	obj
20	off	off	ADP	_	18 beat	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sword	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sword	nmod:poss
23	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 retired	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 retired	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 retired	nsubj
27	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beat	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 only	punct
29	only	only	ADV	_	27 retired	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 reappear	punct
31	however	however	ADV	_	34 reappear	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 reappear	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 reappear	mark
34	reappear	reappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	39 time	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 time	det
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 short	advmod
38	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 time	amod
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reappear	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect	girl		castle		hardly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	appear	past	the two black wolves					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beat off	past	the Sun Hero	wolves = wolf			with castle's sword	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sword=Instrument
4	retire	past	wolves = wolf					vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	reappear	to-infinitive	girl not said here			time	however property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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