The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 64
Hardly were the words out of her mouth than Parsley was changed into a toad and vanished from their sight.
Who acts: feuds · What happens: be, change, vanish, sight · To what, where: words, mouth, sight
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 (feuds), 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 | _ | 4 words | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 words | nmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 Parsley | case |
| 10 | Parsley | Parsley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | aux:pass |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 toad | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 toad | det |
| 15 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 vanished | cc |
| 17 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 sight | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sight | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vanished | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the words | Parsley's mouth than Parsley | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | past · passive | the words | into a toad result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into toad=Result | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past | feuds's sight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | sight | feuds = feud | 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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