The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 100

Hardly had he sat down under the bridge and heaved a sigh, than Puddocky came out; and, sitting down opposite him, asked, ‘What’s wrong with you now, dear Prince?’

Who acts: youngest, Puddocky, sitting · What happens: have, sit down, heave, come out, ask, be · To what, where: bridge, sigh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, Puddocky, sitting), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 bridge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bridge	det
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 heaved	cc
10	heaved	heave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sigh	det
12	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heaved	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
15	Puddocky	Puddocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heaved	conj
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 asked	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 asked	csubj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 sitting	advmod
23	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sitting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sitting	punct
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wrong	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 wrong	punct
29	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 wrong	nsubj
30	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 wrong	cop
31	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 asked	ccomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 wrong	obl
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 wrong	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Prince	punct
36	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Prince	amod
37	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 wrong	vocative
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past					hardly property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	youngest = young		the bridge			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bridge=Location
3	heave	past	youngest = young not said here	a sigh				vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme
4	come out	past	Puddocky				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	sit down	gerund					opposite youngest = young; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite he=Location
6	ask speech: ask	past	sitting					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present				now	with you; dear Prince vocative; wrong property	tree rules

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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