The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 23

Scarcely had he flung away the copper wreath than the whirlwind flung himself upon it, and tore it in pieces.

Who acts: Scarcely, whirlwind · What happens: have, fling away, fling, tore · To what, where: whirlwind, wreath, pieces

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, whirlwind), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	nsubj
4	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 flung	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wreath	det
7	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wreath	compound
8	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obl:agent
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 flung	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 whirlwind	det
11	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flung	nsubj
12	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wreath	acl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 flung	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tore	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tore	cc
18	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tore	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 pieces	case
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tore	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely				tree rules
2	fling away	participle	Scarcely			away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fling	past	the whirlwind	whirlwind	wreath		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon it=Destination
4	tore	past	Scarcely not said here	wreath	pieces		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 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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