The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 78

Hardly had Simon said these words when the three rogues appeared and fell on him to kill him.

Who acts: Simon, three rogues · What happens: have, say, appear, fall, kill · To what, where: words, rogue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, three rogues), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 appeared	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rogues	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 rogues	nummod
10	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 appeared	nsubj
11	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 appeared	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 kill	mark
17	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fell	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kill	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past			hardly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Simon	this words		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	appear	past	the three rogues			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	the three rogues not said here		on rogue	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location
5	kill	to-infinitive	the three rogues not said here	rogue		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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