Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 19

But no use in their running; she was away before any man could come near her.

Who acts: use, people · What happens: be, come, run

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, people), 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	_	15 come	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 use	det
3	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 running	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 running	nmod:poss
6	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 away	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 away	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 away	cop
10	away	away	ADV	_	3 use	advmod
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 man	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 away	obl
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	near	near	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	use	before any man	away property	tree rules
2	come	could	no use in people's running		near mare	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location
3	run		people			nom running «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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