The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 19

Scarcely had he uttered the words than he found himself at the edge of the wood, with the palace in the dim distance.

Who acts: Scarcely · What happens: have, utter, find · To what, where: words, Scarcely, edge

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely), 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 uttered	nsubj
4	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 uttered	obj
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 found	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uttered	advcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 found	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 edge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 edge	det
13	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 edge	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 palace	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 palace	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 palace	det
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 distance	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 distance	det
23	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 distance	amod
24	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 palace	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely				tree rules
2	utter speech: other	past	Scarcely	the words			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	find	past	Scarcely	Scarcely	the edge of the wood	with the palace in the dim distance	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at edge=Asset

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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