English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 6

Scarcely had she said these words when the dove flew down from the branch and settled on her shoulder, nestling up against her neck while she smoothed its feathers.

Who acts: Scarcely, dove · What happens: have, say, fly down, settle, nestle up, smooth · To what, where: words, branch, neck, feathers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, dove), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 flew	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dove	det
9	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 flew	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 branch	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 branch	det
14	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 settled	cc
16	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 shoulder	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shoulder	nmod:poss
19	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 settled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 nestling	punct
21	nestling	nestle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 settled	advcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 nestling	compound:prt
23	against	against	ADP	_	25 neck	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 neck	nmod:poss
25	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nestling	obl
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 smoothed	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 smoothed	nsubj
28	smoothed	smooth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 settled	advcl
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 feathers	nmod:poss
30	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 smoothed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Scarcely	this words			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	fly down	past	the dove		the branch	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from branch=Trajectory
4	settle	past	Scarcely not said here			on Scarcely's shoulder	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Topic
5	nestle up	gerund	Scarcely not said here		Scarcely's neck		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against neck=Location
6	smooth	past	Scarcely	dove's feathers			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=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: «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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