The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 28

Hardly were the words well out of his mouth, when castle, cupboard, and all vanished, and there they were sitting in their poor little fishing hut once more.

Who acts: castle, fish · What happens: be, vanish, sit · To what, where: words, mouth, poor little fishing hut

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, fish), 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	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 mouth	advmod
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 vanished	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 vanished	advmod
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 vanished	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cupboard	punct
14	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 castle	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 vanished	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 vanished	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 vanished	advmod
18	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mouth	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sitting	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sitting	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 sitting	expl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sitting	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 vanished	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	30 hut	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hut	nmod:poss
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hut	amod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hut	amod
29	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hut	compound
30	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 sitting	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 words	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the words	curiosity's mouth	hardly property	tree rules
2	vanish	past	castle and cupboard				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	fish		fish's poor little fishing hut; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hut=Location

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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