Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 54

Hardly was the word out of his mouth when he heard a great noise coming like the sound of many people running together, and talking, and laughing, and making sport, and the sound went by him like a whirl of wind, and he was listening to it going into the rath. "

Who acts: moon, great noise, many people, sound, wind · What happens: be, hear, come, run, talk, laugh · To what, where: word, mouth, great noise, sport, sound, rath

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, great noise, many people, sound), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 word	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 word	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heard	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 word	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 noise	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 noise	amod
14	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
15	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 noise	acl
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 sound	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sound	det
18	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coming	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sound	nmod
22	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 people	acl
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 running	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 talking	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 talking	cc
26	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 heard	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 laughing	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 laughing	cc
29	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 talking	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 making	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 making	cc
32	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 talking	conj
33	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 making	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 went	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sound	det
37	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 went	nsubj
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
39	by	by	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 went	obl
41	like	like	ADP	_	43 whirl	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 whirl	det
43	whirl	whirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 went	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 wind	case
45	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 whirl	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 listening	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 listening	cc
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 listening	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 listening	aux
50	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 heard	conj
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 listening	obl
53	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 listening	advcl
54	into	into	ADP	_	56 rath	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 rath	det
56	rath	rath	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 going	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 word	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 word	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the word		moon's mouth	hardly property	tree rules
2	hear	past	moon	a great noise				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	a great noise not said here				like the sound of many people	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	gerund	many people not said here				together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	talk	gerund						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	laugh	gerund						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	make	gerund		sport				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sport=Product
8	go	past	the sound				by moon; like a whirl of wind	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location
9	listen	past · progressive	moon		sound			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
10	go	gerund	moon not said here			the rath		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into rath=Initial_Location
11	whirl		wind					nom whirl «event intransitive»: of=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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