Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 56
No sooner were the words spoken than he was at home.
Who acts: air · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air), 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 | 5 words | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 words | acl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 home | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 home | cop |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoken | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the words | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | participle | the words not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | air | than home | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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