The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 56
They had hardly done this when the magician and his servants rode up.
Who acts: fools, magician · What happens: do, ride up · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fools, magician), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 rode | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 magician | det |
| 8 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 servants | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 servants | nmod:poss |
| 11 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 magician | conj |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rode | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | fools = fool | this | hardly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ride up | past | the magician and Magician's servants | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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