The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 83

He hardly finished speaking when he found himself back again with his wife, while all the other inhabitants of the palace were lying at the bottom of the Red Sea.

Who acts: King, other inhabitants · What happens: finish, speak, find back, lie · To what, where: King, bottom · 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 (King, other inhabitants), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finished	nsubj
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 finished	advmod
3	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 finished	xcomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 found	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speaking	advcl
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 found	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 found	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	4 speaking	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 wife	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speaking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lying	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 lying	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 inhabitants	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 inhabitants	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 inhabitants	amod
19	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lying	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 palace	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 palace	det
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 inhabitants	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lying	aux
24	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 speaking	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 bottom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bottom	det
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lying	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Sea	det
30	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Sea	compound
31	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 bottom	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past	King				hardly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	gerund	King not said here			again	with King's wife	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wife=Co-Agent
3	find back	past	King	King				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
4	lie	past · progressive	all other inhabitants of the palace		the bottom of the Red Sea			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=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 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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