--- title: She had hardly left him when the two black wolves appeared: but the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She had hardly left him when the two black wolves appeared: but the Sun-Hero beat them off with his sword, and they retired, only, however, to reappear in a very short time. Who acts: girl, two black wolves, Sun Hero, wolves. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Death of the Sun-hero (27)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/) / 26 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 26 She had hardly left him when the two black wolves appeared: but the Sun-Hero beat them off with his sword, and they retired, only, however, to reappear in a very short time. **Who acts:** girl, two black wolves, Sun Hero, wolves · **What happens:** leave, appear, beat off, retire, reappear · **To what, where:** castle, wolves This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, two black wolves, Sun Hero, wolves), 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:pg640:38:26 # text = She had hardly left him when the two black wolves appeared: but the Sun-Hero beat them off with his sword, and they retired, only, however, to reappear in a very short time. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Hero Hero PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 beat beat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 retired retire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 however however ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 reappear reappear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 very very ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past · perfect | girl | | castle | | | hardly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **appear** | past | the two black wolves | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **beat off** | past | the Sun Hero | wolves *= wolf* | | | | with castle's sword | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sword=Instrument | | 4 | **retire** | past | wolves *= wolf* | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **reappear** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | | time | however *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/27/) - ↑ back to [The Death of the Sun-hero (27)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/)