Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 51

But no sooner did Hercules begin to be scorched, than up he started, with his hair in a red blaze.

Who acts: Hercules · What happens: begin, scorch, start

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hercules), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 begin	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 begin	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 begin	aux
5	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 begin	nsubj
6	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 scorched	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 scorched	aux:pass
9	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 begin	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 started	punct
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 started	mark
12	up	up	ADP	_	14 started	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 started	nsubj
14	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scorched	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hair	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 hair	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 started	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 blaze	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blaze	det
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blaze	amod
22	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hair	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past · do-support	Hercules	soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	scorch	to-infinitive · passive	Hercules not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
3	start	past	Hercules	with Hercules's hair in a red blaze	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with hair=Subeventuality

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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