The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 65
Hardly were they out of sight of the palace than the dragon came home and found that his prisoner had flown.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: be, come, find, fly, sight · To what, where: brothers, sight, prisoner, palace
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 (brothers), 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 | _ | 3 they | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 they | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 they | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 dragon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 flown | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 19 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flown | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 flown | aux |
| 21 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 found | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | brothers = brother | sight of the palace than the dragon | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | brothers = brother | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | brothers = brother not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fly | past · perfect · passive | dragon's prisoner | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sight | the palace than the dragon | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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