The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 77
No sooner had he done so than the waters closed behind him, and the youth and his lovely bride stood safe on the other side.
Who acts: dwarf, youth · What happens: do, close, stand · To what, where: waters, other side
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, youth), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 waters | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waters | det |
| 9 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 so | obl |
| 10 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 waters | acl |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 closed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stood | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 youth | det |
| 16 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bride | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bride | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bride | amod |
| 20 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 youth | conj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | conj |
| 22 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stood | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 side | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 side | amod |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | dwarf | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | close | participle | the waters not said here | behind dwarf | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the youth and dwarf's lovely bride | the other side | safe property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=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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