Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 50
No sooner had he done so, than to his sorrow and surprise, his wife went and sat down near the ugly old beggar.
Who acts: teller, wife · What happens: do, go, sit down, sorrow · To what, where: ugly old beggar
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teller, wife), 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 done | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sorrow | punct |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 sorrow | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sorrow | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 surprise | cc |
| 13 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sorrow | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sat | cc |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 sat | compound:prt |
| 21 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 beggar | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beggar | det |
| 23 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beggar | amod |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beggar | amod |
| 25 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | teller | than teller's sorrow and surprise; soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | teller's wife | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit down | past | teller's wife not said here | the ugly old beggar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near beggar=Location | ||||
| 4 | sorrow | teller | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/50/