Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 5

Scarcely had they gathered into the rath till they all began shouting, and screaming, and talking amongst themselves; and then each one of them cried out: "My horse, and bridle, and saddle!

Who acts: Scarcely, sheehogues, one, horse · What happens: have, gather, begin, shout, scream, talk · To what, where: saddle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, sheehogues, one, horse), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gathered	nsubj
4	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 rath	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rath	det
7	rath	rath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gathered	obl
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 began	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 began	advmod
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	advcl
12	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 screaming	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 screaming	cc
15	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 shouting	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 talking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 talking	cc
18	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 shouting	conj
19	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	20 themselves	case
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 talking	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 cried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cried	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 cried	advmod
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cried	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 one	nmod
28	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 cried	compound:prt
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 bridle	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 bridle	punct
32	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 horse	nmod:poss
33	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bridle	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bridle	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bridle	cc
36	bridle	bridle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cried	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 saddle	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 saddle	cc
39	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely	saddle			tree rules
2	gather	past	sheehogues = sheehogue			into the rath	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent into rath=Co-Patient
3	begin	past	sheehogues = sheehogue				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	shout speech: express	gerund	sheehogues = sheehogue not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	scream speech: express	gerund	sheehogues = sheehogue not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	talk	gerund	sheehogues = sheehogue not said here			amongst sheehogues = sheehogue	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cry out speech: express	past	each one of sheehogues		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bridle in a quote	infinitive	My horse				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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