--- title: No sooner had the seven princes come out into the churchyard than th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: No sooner had the seven princes come out into the churchyard than they became foals again, and Cinderlad got upon the back of the youngest, and they returned by the way they had come, only they went much, much faster. Who acts: seven princes, princes, Cinderlad. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/100/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Seven Foals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/) / 100 # The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 100 No sooner had the seven princes come out into the churchyard than they became foals again, and Cinderlad got upon the back of the youngest, and they returned by the way they had come, only they went much, much faster. **Who acts:** seven princes, princes, Cinderlad · **What happens:** have, come out, become, get, return, come · **To what, where:** churchyard, foals, way This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven princes, princes, Cinderlad), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:49:100 # text = No sooner had the seven princes come out into the churchyard than they became foals again, and Cinderlad got upon the back of the youngest, and they returned by the way they had come, only they went much, much faster. 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 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 out out ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 churchyard churchyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 than than SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 foals foal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 xcomp _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 Cinderlad Cinderlad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 upon upon ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 only only ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 much much ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 much much ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | | | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come out** | present | the seven princes | | | the churchyard | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **become** | past | princes *= prince* | foals | | | again | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **get** | past | Cinderlad | | | | | upon the youngest | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **return** | past | princes *= prince* | | | | | by the way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come** | past · perfect | princes *= prince* | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 7 | **go** | past | princes *= prince* | | | | | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/101/) - ↑ back to [The Seven Foals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/)