The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 4
Hardly had he done speaking, scarcely had Petru twisted his wreath, when a soft breeze arose on all sides at once.
Who acts: he, Petru, soft breeze · What happens: do, speak, have, twist, arise · To what, where: wreath, sides · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, Petru, soft breeze), 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 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 done | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speaking | parataxis |
| 9 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 twisted | nsubj |
| 10 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wreath | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 twisted | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 arose | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 arose | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 breeze | det |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 breeze | amod |
| 17 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arose | nsubj |
| 18 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wreath | acl:relcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 sides | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 sides | det |
| 21 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 arose | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 arose | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | he | hardly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | scarcely property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | twist | past | Petru | Petru's wreath | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme | ||||
| 5 | arise | past | a soft breeze | all sides | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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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