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The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 19

He had scarcely finished speaking when there stood in front of him, exactly opposite the King’s palace, a castle built precisely as he had ordered.

Who acts: man · What happens: finish, speak, stand, build, order · To what, where: front, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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

nsubjauxadvmodxcompadvmodexpladvclcaseoblcasenmodpunctadvmodcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctdetconjacladvmodmarknsubjauxadvclpunctrootHePRONhadAUXscarcelyADVfinishedVERBspeakingVERBwhenADVtherePRONstoodVERBinADPfrontNOUNofADPhimPRON,PUNCTexactlyADVoppositeADPtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTpalaceNOUN,PUNCTaDETcastleNOUNbuiltVERBpreciselyADVasSCONJhePRONhadAUXorderedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 finishednsubj
2hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 finishedaux
3scarcelyscarcelyADV_4 finishedadvmod
4finishedfinishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
5speakingspeakVERBVerbForm=Ger4 finishedxcomp
6whenwhenADVPronType=Int8 stoodadvmod
7theretherePRONPronType=Dem8 stoodexpl
8stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 speakingadvcl
9ininADP_10 frontcase
10frontfrontNOUNNumber=Sing8 stoodobl
11ofofADP_12 himcase
12himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 frontnmod
13,,PUNCT_19 palacepunct
14exactlyexactlyADV_19 palaceadvmod
15oppositeoppositeADP_19 palacecase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Kingdet
17KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing19 palacenmod:poss
18’s'sPART_17 Kingcase
19palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing5 speakingobl
20,,PUNCT_22 castlepunct
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 castledet
22castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing19 palaceconj
23builtbuildVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 castleacl
24preciselypreciselyADV_23 builtadvmod
25asasSCONJ_28 orderedmark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 orderednsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 orderedaux
28orderedorderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part23 builtadvcl
29..PUNCT_4 finishedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1finishpast · perfectmanscarcely propertyvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2speak speech: othergerundman not said hereopposite the King's palace and a castlevn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3standpastman not said herefront of man; therevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
4buildparticiplea castle not said hereprecisely propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5orderpast · perfectmanvn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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