English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 103

They were no sooner up and in one of the drawing-rooms than here comes just in sight the gentleman and lady and all the servants; but it was too late.

Who acts: man, one, sight · What happens: be, come · To what, where: sight

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one, sight), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 up	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 up	cop
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 sooner	advmod
4	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 comes	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 comes	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 rooms	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rooms	det
11	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rooms	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 drawing	punct
13	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 here	case
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 rooms	nmod
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 up	conj
17	just	just	ADV	_	19 sight	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 sight	case
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gentleman	det
21	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sight	appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lady	cc
23	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gentleman	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 servants	cc
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 servants	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 servants	det
27	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gentleman	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 late	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 late	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 late	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 late	cop
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 late	advmod
33	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 comes	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	man		soon, up property	tree rules
2	come	present	one of the drawing rooms	sight		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location
3	is	past	sight		late 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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