The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 48

He had hardly said the words when a thick fog wrapped itself around him, and so thick was it that he could not see his own hand, or hear the sound of his voice.

Who acts: Petru, thick fog · What happens: say, wrap, be, not see, hear · To what, where: words, fog, own hand, sound · 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 (Petru, thick fog), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 wrapped	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fog	det
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fog	amod
10	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wrapped	nsubj
11	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 wrapped	obj
13	around	around	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wrapped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thick	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thick	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 thick	advmod
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wrapped	parataxis
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 it	cop
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thick	nsubj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 see	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 see	advmod
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thick	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hand	amod
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hear	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 hear	cc
31	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sound	det
33	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hear	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 voice	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 voice	nmod:poss
36	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sound	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Petru	the words	hardly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	wrap	past	a thick fog	fog	around Petru	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme around he=Destination
3	is a	past		fog		tree rules
4	not see	could	Petru	Petru's own hand		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
5	hear	infinitive	Petru not said here	the sound of Petru's voice		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

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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