Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 74

Scarcely had he said these words when all vanished, and the story-teller found himself at the Foxes' Ford, near the castle of Red Hugh O'Donnell.

Who acts: Scarcely, story teller · What happens: have, say, vanish, find · To what, where: words, teller, Ford · 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 (Scarcely, story teller), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 vanished	advmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 vanished	advmod
9	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 teller	det
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 teller	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 story	punct
15	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 found	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	22 Ford	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Foxes	det
20	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Ford	nmod:poss
21	'	's	PART	_	20 Foxes	case
22	Ford	Ford	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 found	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 castle	punct
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 castle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 castle	det
26	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Hugh	case
28	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Hugh	flat
29	Hugh	Hugh	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 castle	nmod
30	O'Donnell	O'Donnell	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Hugh	flat
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Scarcely	this words			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	vanish	past	Scarcely not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	the story teller	teller	the Foxes's Ford	near the castle of Red Hugh	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at ford=Asset

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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