Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 42

But they had no chance; for the moment the people rose at the end of Mass she slipped from the church, was in the silver saddle, and home before a man could stop her or talk to her.

Who acts: people, henwife, man · What happens: have, rise, slip, be, stop, talk · To what, where: chance, end, Mass, silver saddle, henwife

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 (people, henwife, man), 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	_	3 had	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 chance	det
5	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 moment	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rose	nsubj
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Mass	case
17	Mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 end	nmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 slipped	nsubj
19	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Mass	acl:relcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 church	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 church	det
22	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slipped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saddle	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 saddle	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 saddle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 saddle	det
27	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 saddle	amod
28	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 home	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 home	cc
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saddle	conj
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 stop	mark
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stop	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 stop	aux
36	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 rose	advcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stop	obj
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 talk	cc
39	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 stop	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 talk	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	people	no chance					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
2	rise	past	the people				at the end of Mass; moment		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location
3	slip	past	henwife	Mass not said here				from the church	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mass=Patient from church=Co-Patient
4	is	past				the silver saddle and home			tree rules
5	stop	could	a man	henwife					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector she=Eventuality
6	talk	infinitive	a man not said here		henwife				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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