More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 40

No sooner had he said the word, when clatter, clatter, rustle, rustle, what should come down the chimney but a link of the finest black pudding the heart of man could wish for.

Who acts: woodman, rustle, heart · What happens: have, say, come down, wish · To what, where: word, chimney, finest black pudding · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodman, rustle, heart), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 clatter	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 clatter	advmod
10	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clatter	punct
12	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clatter	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rustle	punct
14	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clatter	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rustle	punct
16	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clatter	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 come	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 rustle	acl:relcl
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chimney	det
23	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 link	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 link	det
26	link	link	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clatter	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 pudding	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pudding	det
29	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 pudding	amod
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pudding	amod
31	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 link	nmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 heart	det
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wish	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 man	case
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heart	nmod
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 wish	aux
37	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 pudding	acl:relcl
38	for	for	ADP	_	37 wish	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	woodman not said here		soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	woodman	the word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	come down	should	rustle	the chimney	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wish	could	the heart of man	the finest black pudding not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pudding=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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