Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 122

No sooner did the mice hear this than they began scampering all about the barn!

Who acts: mice · What happens: hear, begin, scamper · To what, where: this, barn

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mice), 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	6 hear	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mice	det
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	nsubj
6	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 hear	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 began	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	advcl
11	scampering	scamper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 began	xcomp
12	all	all	ADV	_	15 barn	advmod
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 barn	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 barn	det
15	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scampering	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	the mice	this	soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	begin	past	mice = mouse			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	scamper	gerund	mice = mouse not said here	the barn		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location barn=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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