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

The Sun-Hero chased them away once more, but he had hardly sat down to rest when the two black wolves were on the scene again.

Who acts: Sun Hero, castle, two black wolves · What happens: chase away, sit down, rest, be · To what, where: wolves, scene

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 (Sun Hero, castle, two black 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hero	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hero	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Sun	punct
4	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chased	nsubj
5	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chased	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 chased	advmod
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 chased	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	aux
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 sat	advmod
15	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 chased	parataxis
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 sat	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rest	mark
18	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sat	advcl
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 scene	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wolves	det
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 wolves	nummod
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wolves	amod
23	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 scene	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 scene	cop
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 scene	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 scene	det
27	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rest	obl
28	again	again	ADV	_	18 rest	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase away	past	the Sun Hero	wolves = wolf			away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	sit down	past · perfect	castle				hardly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest	to-infinitive	castle not said here			again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the two black wolves		the scene			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 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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