The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 26

Scarcely had the braggart spoken than he fell into one of the pitfalls that he had ordered to be made and he immediately disappeared from view.

Who acts: Scarcely, pitfalls · What happens: have, speak, fall, order, make, disappear · To what, where: braggart, pitfalls, view · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, pitfalls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 braggart	det
4	braggart	braggart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 braggart	acl
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 fell	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fell	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 pitfalls	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pitfalls	det
13	pitfalls	pitfall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 ordered	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ordered	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ordered	aux
17	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 pitfalls	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	20 made	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 made	aux:pass
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 ordered	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 disappeared	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 disappeared	nsubj
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	24 disappeared	advmod
24	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fell	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 view	case
26	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 disappeared	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely	the braggart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braggart=Patient
2	speak speech: other	participle		the braggart not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	Scarcely			into one of the pitfalls result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into one=Result
4	order	past · perfect	Scarcely	the pitfalls			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Recipient clause=Topic
5	make not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the pitfalls not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
6	disappear	past	Scarcely		view	immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from view=Initial_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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 26

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 26