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title: They were no sooner up and in one of the drawing-rooms than here com… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They were no sooner up and in one of the drawing-rooms than here comes just in sight the gentleman and lady and all the servants; but it was too late. Who acts: man, one, sight. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 103

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They were no sooner up and in one of the drawing-rooms than here comes just in sight the gentleman and lady and all the servants; but it was too late.

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**Who acts:** man, one, sight · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** sight

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one, sight), 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:pg7439:20:103
# text = They were no sooner up and in one of the drawing-rooms than here comes just in sight the gentleman and lady and all the servants; but it was too late.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	nmod	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | soon, up *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | one of the drawing rooms |  |  | sight |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | sight |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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