The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 108
It had hardly touched his fingers when the fish appeared in the stream beside him.
Who acts: fish · What happens: touch, appear · To what, where: sight, stream
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 touched | advmod |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 touched | obj |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 appeared | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 stream | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stream | det |
| 13 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obl |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 appeared | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · perfect · passive | sight | hardly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer finger=Result | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the fish | the stream | beside colt | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stream=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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