The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 248
But he had hardly swallowed two plums when, to his horror, he felt as if something was growing on his forehead.
Who acts: John, something · What happens: swallow, feel, grow · To what, where: John, forehead
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, something), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 swallowed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swallowed | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 swallowed | advmod |
| 5 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 plums | nummod |
| 7 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swallowed | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 felt | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 horror | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 horror | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horror | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 horror | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swallowed | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 growing | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 growing | mark |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 growing | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 growing | aux |
| 20 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 felt | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 forehead | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 23 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 growing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past · perfect · passive | John | hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | John | to John's horror | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to horror=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | grow | past · progressive | something | John's forehead | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on forehead=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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