Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 164
But he no sooner caught her than a hoodie sprang out of her. "
Who acts: hoodie · What happens: catch, spring out · To what, where: horse, princess
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 (hoodie), 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 | _ | 5 caught | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 he | conj |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 caught | advmod |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 hoodie | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hoodie | det |
| 9 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 10 | sprang | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hoodie | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sprang | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | horse | than a hoodie; soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring out | gerund | a hoodie not said here | princess | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location she=Theme |
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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