Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 168
No sooner said than the otter was at his side, and out on the loch she leaped, and brings the trout from the midst of the loch; but no sooner was the otter on shore with the trout than the egg came from his mouth.
Who acts: otter, princess · What happens: say, be, leap, bring, come · To what, where: loch, trout, midst, otter, shore, mouth · 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 (otter, princess), 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 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 otter | det |
| 6 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 side | cop |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 side | nmod:poss |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leaped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leaped | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 leaped | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 loch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 loch | det |
| 16 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaped | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leaped | nsubj |
| 18 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brings | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brings | cc |
| 21 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trout | det |
| 23 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brings | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 midst | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 midst | det |
| 26 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brings | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 loch | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 loch | det |
| 29 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 midst | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 came | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 otter | cc |
| 32 | no | no | ADV | _ | 33 sooner | advmod |
| 33 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 otter | advmod |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 otter | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 otter | det |
| 36 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 came | nsubj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 shore | case |
| 38 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 otter | nmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 trout | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 trout | det |
| 41 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 shore | nmod |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 44 egg | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 egg | det |
| 44 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 trout | nmod |
| 45 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 mouth | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 48 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 came | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the otter | than otter's side | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leap | past | princess | the loch | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on loch=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | bring | present | the trout | the midst of the loch | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent trout=Theme from midst=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the otter | shore with the trout than the egg | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | come | past | the otter | otter's mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location |
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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