The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 35

No sooner had he said this than he shook himself, and immediately became a handsome youth, but the next morning he was forced to creep back again into his crab-shell.

Who acts: man, next morning · What happens: say, shake, become, force, creep back · To what, where: this, man, handsome youth, next morning, crab shell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, next morning), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 said	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 said	obj
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 shook	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shook	nsubj
9	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	advcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 shook	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 became	cc
13	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	14 became	advmod
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 youth	det
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 youth	amod
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 forced	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 forced	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 morning	det
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 morning	amod
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 forced	nsubj:pass
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 forced	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 forced	aux:pass
25	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 became	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 creep	mark
27	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 forced	xcomp
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 creep	advmod
29	again	again	ADV	_	27 creep	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	34 shell	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 shell	nmod:poss
32	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shell	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 crab	punct
34	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 creep	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man	this			soon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	shake	past	man	man				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	become	past	man not said here	a handsome youth			immediately property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	force	past · passive		the next morning				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	creep back	to-infinitive	the next morning not said here		man's crab shell	again		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into shell=Destination

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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