Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 64

Both went to the table to play, and they were not long playing cards when the hare ran in; and before they could stop him he was out again.

Who acts: Both, bundles, hare · What happens: go, play, not be, run, stop, be · To what, where: table, cards, hare

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Both, bundles, hare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:1158): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 table	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 long	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 long	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	conj
14	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 long	advcl
15	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 playing	obj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 ran	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hare	det
18	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ran	nsubj
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 playing	advcl
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 ran	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 out	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 out	cc
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 stop	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stop	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 stop	aux
26	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 out	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stop	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 out	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 out	cop
30	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	conj
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 out	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Both		the table			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location
2	play	to-infinitive	Both not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	bundles = bundle				long property	tree rules
4	play	gerund	bundles = bundle not said here	cards				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme
5	run	past	the hare					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stop	could	bundles = bundle	hare				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality
7	is	past	hare			again	out property	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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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