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title: He had no sooner got inside the gate, and shut it, than the appariti… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had no sooner got inside the gate, and shut it, than the apparition came up to it; and, enraged at losing his prize, struck the wall above the gate, and left there the mark of his five great fingers. Who acts: tailor, apparition. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 27

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He had no sooner got inside the gate, and shut it, than the apparition came up to it; and, enraged at losing his prize, struck the wall above the gate, and left there the mark of his five great fingers.

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**Who acts:** tailor, apparition · **What happens:** have, get, shut, come up, enrage, lose · **To what, where:** gate, prize, wall, mark, five great fingers

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, apparition), 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:pg7885:12:27
# text = He had no sooner got inside the gate, and shut it, than the apparition came up to it; and, enraged at losing his prize, struck the wall above the gate, and left there the mark of his five great fingers.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	apparition	apparition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	obl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	above	above	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
39	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
44	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | tailor |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | participle | tailor *not said here* |  |  | the gate |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **shut** | infinitive | tailor *not said here* | gate |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **come up** | past | the apparition |  |  | gate |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **enrage** | participle | tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **lose** | gerund |  | tailor's prize |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
| 7 | **strike** | past |  | the wall |  | the gate |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |
| 8 | **leave** | past |  | the mark of tailor's five great fingers |  | there |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |
| 9 | **mark** |  |  | tailor's five great fingers |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «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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