The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 187
The words were hardly out of his mouth before the dragon had snatched up the sacks and piled them on his back.
Who acts: words · What happens: be, snatch up, pile · To what, where: mouth, dragon, sacks, back
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mouth | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mouth | cop |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 8 mouth | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 snatched | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snatched | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 snatched | aux |
| 13 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mouth | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 snatched | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sacks | det |
| 16 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 snatched | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 piled | cc |
| 18 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 snatched | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 piled | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 back | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 back | nmod:poss |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mouth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the words | condition's mouth | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | snatch up | past · perfect · passive | the dragon | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sack=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pile | past | sacks = sack | condition's back | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on back=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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