Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 63

But it wasn't for long; who but his wife called the hounds, and set them on him.

Who acts: hare · What happens: not be, call, set · To what, where: wife, hounds · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hare), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 long	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 long	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 long	case
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 who	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 long	parataxis
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 wife	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 who	nsubj
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 wife	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hounds	det
14	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 called	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 set	cc
17	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 long	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	hare			long property	tree rules
2	call	participle		man's wife not said here	the hounds		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hound=Recipient
3	set	infinitive	hare not said here	hounds = hound		on man	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on he=Destination

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.

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