More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 30

No sooner than he had mounted his horse he could hear a tremendous noise, the enchantment was broke, and they tried to follow him, but all to no purpose.

Who acts: boy, enchantment, swans · What happens: mount, hear, be, try, follow · To what, where: horse, tremendous noise, boy

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, enchantment, swans), 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	ADV	_	2 sooner	advmod
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 mounted	advmod
3	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 mounted	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mounted	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mounted	aux
6	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 hear	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mounted	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 noise	det
13	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 noise	amod
14	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 broke	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 enchantment	det
17	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broke	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 broke	cop
19	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hear	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tried	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tried	nsubj
23	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 broke	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 follow	mark
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tried	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 follow	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 all	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 all	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 broke	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 purpose	case
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 purpose	det
32	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 all	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mount	past · perfect	boy	boy's horse	soon property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	hear	could	boy	a tremendous noise		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
3	is	past	the enchantment		broke property	tree rules
4	try	past	swans = swan			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	swans = swan not said here	boy		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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