The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 32

By this time he had grown so courageous that he did not hesitate to obey the order, and hardly had he stepped on the stone than it began to sink gently with him into the depths below.

Who acts: tailor, stone · What happens: grow, not hesitate, obey, have, step, begin · To what, where: order, stone, depths

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, stone), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grown	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grown	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	aux
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 courageous	advmod
8	courageous	courageous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grown	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 hesitate	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hesitate	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hesitate	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hesitate	advmod
13	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 courageous	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 obey	mark
15	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hesitate	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 order	det
17	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 obey	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stepped	nsubj
23	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 had	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 stone	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stone	det
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stepped	obl
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 began	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 began	nsubj
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stepped	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sink	mark
31	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	gently	gently	ADV	_	31 sink	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sink	obl
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 depths	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 depths	det
37	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sink	obl
38	below	below	ADV	_	37 depths	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	tailor			time	courageous property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not hesitate	past · do-support	tailor					tree rules
3	obey	to-infinitive	tailor not said here	the order				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
4	have	past	tailor not said here				hardly property	tree rules
5	step	participle	tailor		the stone			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory
6	begin	past	stone					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	sink	to-infinitive	stone not said here		the depths		with tailor; gently property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with he=Instrument

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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