Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 204

No sooner did he that, than there were twenty miles of blackthorn wood, so thick that scarce a weasel could go through it.

Who acts: twig, weasel · What happens: do, be, scarce, go · To what, where: wood

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twig, weasel), 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 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 thick	mark
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 were	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thick	cop
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 miles	nummod
11	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	blackthorn	blackthorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wood	compound
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 miles	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thick	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 thick	advmod
17	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 scarce	mark
19	scarce	scarce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thick	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 weasel	det
21	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 scarce	ccomp
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 go	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	twig		soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			thick property	tree rules
3	scarce	present				tree rules
4	go	could	a weasel	wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=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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