The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 59

Scarcely had he finished speaking when the sky grew black, the thunder growled, and the lightning flashed, and in the blaze of light the good Fairy Genesta suddenly appeared.

Who acts: Scarcely, sky, thunder, lightning, good Fairy, light · What happens: have, finish, speak, grow, growl, flash · To what, where: blaze · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, sky, thunder, lightning), 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 finished	nsubj
4	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 finished	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 grew	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speaking	advcl
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 growled	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thunder	det
13	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 growled	nsubj
14	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grew	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flashed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flashed	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lightning	det
18	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flashed	nsubj
19	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 appeared	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 appeared	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 blaze	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blaze	det
24	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 appeared	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 light	case
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 blaze	nmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Fairy	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Fairy	amod
29	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 appeared	nsubj
30	Genesta	Genesta	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Fairy	flat
31	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	32 appeared	advmod
32	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 flashed	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely			tree rules
2	finish	past	Scarcely			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other	gerund	Scarcely not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	the sky		black property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	growl	past	the thunder			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	flash	past	the lightning			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	appear	past	the good Fairy	the blaze of light	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blaze=Location
8	blaze		light			nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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