The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 9

Hardly had it touched his tongue than he heard a strange sort of whispering of tiny voices outside his window.

Who acts: cover, King · What happens: have, touch, hear, sort, whisper · To what, where: tongue, strange sort, whispering, tiny voices

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cover, King), 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touched	nsubj
4	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tongue	nmod:poss
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	obj
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 heard	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touched	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sort	det
11	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sort	amod
12	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 whispering	case
14	whispering	whispering	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sort	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 voices	case
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 voices	amod
17	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 whispering	nmod
18	outside	outside	ADP	_	20 window	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 window	nmod:poss
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 voices	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past			hardly property	tree rules
2	touch	past	cover	King's tongue		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=Co-Theme
3	hear	past	King	a strange sort of whispering of tiny voices outside King's window		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
4	sort			whispering of tiny voices outside King's window		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	whisper			tiny voices outside King's window		nom whispering «event transitive»: of=patient

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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