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title: No sooner had he said the word, when clatter, clatter, rustle, rustl… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner had he said the word, when clatter, clatter, rustle, rustle, what should come down the chimney but a link of the finest black pudding the heart of man could wish for. Who acts: woodman, rustle, heart. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 40

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No sooner had he said the word, when clatter, clatter, rustle, rustle, what should come down the chimney but a link of the finest black pudding the heart of man could wish for.

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**Who acts:** woodman, rustle, heart · **What happens:** have, say, come down, wish · **To what, where:** word, chimney, finest black pudding · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodman, rustle, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:24:40
# text = No sooner had he said the word, when clatter, clatter, rustle, rustle, what should come down the chimney but a link of the finest black pudding the heart of man could wish for.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	clatter	clatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	clatter	clatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	rustle	rustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	rustle	rustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	link	link	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | woodman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woodman | the word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **come down** | should | rustle | the chimney |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** | could | the heart of man | the finest black pudding *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pudding=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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