The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 24

All this had happened with such rapidity that they had only time to utter a cry, and each to hold up to the other the flowers they had gathered; but this was explanation enough.

Who acts: this, Sylvain, each, other flowers · What happens: happen, have, utter, hold up, gather, be · To what, where: cry, Sylvain, explanation

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Sylvain, each, other flowers), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 happened	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 happened	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 rapidity	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rapidity	amod
7	rapidity	rapidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	advcl
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 time	advmod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 utter	mark
14	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cry	det
16	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 utter	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hold	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hold	cc
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 hold	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hold	mark
21	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 hold	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 flowers	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flowers	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 flowers	amod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flowers	det
27	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hold	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gathered	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gathered	aux
30	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 flowers	acl:relcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 explanation	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 explanation	cc
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 explanation	det
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 explanation	cop
35	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
36	enough	enough	ADV	_	35 explanation	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past · perfect	this			with such rapidity	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Sylvain		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	utter speech: other	to-infinitive	Sylvain not said here	a cry			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
4	hold up	to-infinitive	each			to the other flowers	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	gather	past · perfect · passive	the other flowers not said here	Sylvain			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	is a	past		this explanation		enough property	tree rules

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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