Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 163

No sooner spoke he the word than the grateful dog was at his side; and after the hind he went, and they were not long in bringing her to earth.

Who acts: grateful dog, horse, dog · What happens: speak, be, go, not be, bring · To what, where: horse, princess, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grateful dog, horse, 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	3 spoke	advmod
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	14 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
9	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 side	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 side	cop
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 side	nmod:poss
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 hind	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hind	det
19	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 long	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 long	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 long	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 went	parataxis
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 bringing	mark
29	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 long	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bringing	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 earth	case
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bringing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past		horse			soon property	tree rules
2	is	past	the grateful dog				than horse's side	tree rules
3	go	past	horse			after the hind		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	past	dog				long property	tree rules
5	bring	gerund	dog not said here	princess	earth			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to earth=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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