The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 8

Hardly had the old King done so than a lovely tiny dog sprang out of the nutshell, and ran about on the King’s hand, wagging its tail and barking lustily at all the other little dogs.

Who acts: old King, lovely tiny dog · What happens: have, do, spring out, run about, wag, bark · To what, where: old King, nutshell, hand, tail

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old King, lovely tiny dog), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 King	amod
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	13 sprang	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	12 dog	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dog	det
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sprang	nsubj
13	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 nutshell	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 nutshell	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nutshell	det
17	nutshell	nutshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sprang	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ran	cc
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 ran	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 hand	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 hand	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 King	case
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wagging	punct
28	wagging	wag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 ran	advcl
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tail	nmod:poss
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wagging	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 barking	cc
32	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 wagging	conj
33	lustily	lustily	ADV	_	32 barking	advmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	39 dogs	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 dogs	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 dogs	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dogs	amod
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dogs	amod
39	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 barking	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past		the old King		hardly property	tree rules
2	do	participle	the old King not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spring out	past	a lovely tiny dog	the nutshell			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location nutshell=Theme
4	run about	past			the King's hand	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory
5	wag	gerund		hand's tail			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
6	bark	gerund				at all other little dogs; lustily property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at dog=Stimulus

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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