The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 41

But no sooner had they done this than the young man called out, ‘Oh, wretched people! what have you done?’ and before they had time to look round he had changed himself into a dove, and dashing against the window he broke a pane of glass, and flew away from their sight.

Who acts: eyes, you, man · What happens: do, call out, have, look round, change, dash · To what, where: this, young man, wretched people, man, dove, window

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, you, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 done	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 done	advmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 done	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obl
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 man	acl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 called	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 people	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 people	punct
16	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	19 people	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Oh	punct
18	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 done	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 people	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 done	obj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 done	nsubj
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 people	conj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 done	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 done	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 flew	cc
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 flew	advcl
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 look	mark
33	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 time	acl
34	round	round	ADP	_	37 changed	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 changed	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 changed	aux
37	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 look	advcl
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 changed	obj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 dove	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 dove	det
41	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 changed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dashing	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 dashing	cc
44	dashing	dash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 had	advcl
45	against	against	ADP	_	47 window	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 window	det
47	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dashing	obl
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 broke	nsubj
49	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 window	acl:relcl
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 pane	det
51	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 broke	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 glass	case
53	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 pane	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 flew	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 flew	cc
56	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	conj
57	away	away	ADV	_	56 flew	advmod
58	from	from	ADP	_	60 sight	case
59	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 sight	nmod:poss
60	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 away	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	eyes = eye	this			than the young man; wretched people obl; soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	call out speech: assert	participle		the young man not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present · perfect	you	wretched people				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	have	past	eyes = eye			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	look round	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	change	past · perfect	man	man			into a dove result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into dove=Result
7	dash	gerund	eyes = eye not said here		the window			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against window=Trajectory
8	break	past	man	a pane of glass				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pane=Patient
9	fly	past	you not said here				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	sight		eyes = eye					nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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