--- title: Scarcely had she finished speaking when she saw beside her a little… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Scarcely had she finished speaking when she saw beside her a little silver tray with a gilt coffee-pot, two cups of rare porcelain, a sugar basin of fine crystal, silver sugar tongs, and some good fresh white bread. Who acts: Scarcely, some. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, some), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:25:11 # text = Scarcely had she finished speaking when she saw beside her a little silver tray with a gilt coffee-pot, two cups of rare porcelain, a sugar basin of fine crystal, silver sugar tongs, and some good fresh white bread. 1 Scarcely Scarcely PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 finished finish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 beside beside ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 tray tray NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 gilt gilt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 coffee coffee NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 cups cup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 porcelain porcelain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 basin basin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 tongs tong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 44 nsubj _ _ 41 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 42 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Scarcely | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **finish** | past | Scarcely | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Scarcely *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | past | Scarcely | a little silver tray and a sugar basin of fine crystal and silver sugar tongs | | | | beside fairy; with a gilt coffee pot and two cups of rare porcelain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tray=Stimulus | | 5 | **bread** | | some | | | | | | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/12/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/)