The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 17

No sooner did the man get hold of the dog than he turned him into the garden, but the dog did nothing but race about, and the man was forced to wait with what patience he could.

Who acts: man, dog · What happens: get, turn, do, race, force, wait · To what, where: hold, pet, garden, nothing, man, dog

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, dog), 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 get	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 dog	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nmod
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 turned	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turned	nsubj
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turned	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 garden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 did	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 did	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dog	det
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 did	nsubj
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 turned	conj
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 did	obj
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 race	cc
25	race	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	conj
26	about	about	ADV	_	25 race	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 forced	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 forced	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 forced	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 forced	aux:pass
32	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 get	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 wait	mark
34	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 forced	xcomp
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 what	case
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 wait	obl
37	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 could	nsubj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 could	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 what	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the man	hold of the dog		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
2	turn	past	man	pet	the garden		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into garden=Trajectory
3	do	past	the dog	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	race	present	the man not said here			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	force	past · passive		the man			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	wait	to-infinitive	the man not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hold			the dog			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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