--- title: No sooner had he done so than his legs felt as sound and strong as t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: No sooner had he done so than his legs felt as sound and strong as they had been before, and Ferko thanked the kind fate that had led him to the hill where he had overheard the ravens’ conversation. Who acts: Ferko, legs, kind fate, ravens. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, legs, kind fate, ravens), 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:pg640:14:38 # text = No sooner had he done so than his legs felt as sound and strong as they had been before, and Ferko thanked the kind fate that had led him to the hill where he had overheard the ravens’ conversation. 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 than than SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 cop _ _ 19 before before ADV RB _ 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Ferko Ferko PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 thanked thank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 37 advmod _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 overheard overhear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 ravens raven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Ferko | | | | | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **feel** | past | Ferko's legs | | | | | as sound | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as sound=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past · perfect | legs *= leg* | | | | | before *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Ferko | the kind fate | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme | | 5 | **lead** | past · perfect | the kind fate | Ferko | | the hill | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hill=Destination | | 6 | **overhear** | past · perfect | Ferko | the ravens's conversation | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus | | 7 | **converse** | | the ravens | | | | | | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/39/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/)