The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 61

In one moment they all fell hopelessly in love with her, and longed ardently to have the girl for their wife; but hardly had they with one breath expressed their desire than, mad with jealousy, they drew their swords and all three set upon each other.

Who acts: remorse, one breath, three · What happens: fall, long, have, express, draw, set · To what, where: love, girl, remorse, desire, swords, each

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 (remorse, one breath, three), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 moment	nummod
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fell	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 they	det
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hopelessly	hopelessly	ADV	_	6 fell	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 love	case
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 longed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 longed	cc
14	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
15	ardently	ardently	ADV	_	14 longed	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 have	mark
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 longed	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 wife	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wife	nmod:poss
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 girl	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
25	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	26 had	advmod
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	obj
28	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 expressed	mark
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 breath	nummod
30	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 expressed	nsubj
31	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 had	advcl
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 desire	nmod:poss
33	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 expressed	obj
34	than	than	ADP	_	33 desire	fixed
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 mad	punct
36	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 desire	appos
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 jealousy	case
38	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 mad	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 drew	punct
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 drew	nsubj
41	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	parataxis
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 swords	nmod:poss
43	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 drew	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 set	cc
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 three	det
46	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 set	nsubj
47	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 drew	conj
48	upon	upon	ADP	_	49 each	case
49	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	47 set	obl
50	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 each	fixed
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	remorse		love	moment	with Parsley; hopelessly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
2	long	past	remorse not said here				ardently property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	remorse not said here	the girl			for remorse's wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
4	have	past	remorse not said here	remorse			hardly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	express	past	one breath	remorse's desire				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme
6	draw	past	remorse	remorse's swords				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
7	set	past	all three		each			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon each=Destination
8	desire		remorse					nom desire «feeling 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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