--- title: No sooner said than the otter was at his side, and out on the loch s… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: No sooner said than the otter was at his side, and out on the loch she leaped, and brings the trout from the midst of the loch; but no sooner was the otter on shore with the trout than the egg came from his mouth. Who acts: otter, princess. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Se --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/168/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Sea-maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/) / 168 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 168 No sooner said than the otter was at his side, and out on the loch she leaped, and brings the trout from the midst of the loch; but no sooner was the otter on shore with the trout than the egg came from his mouth. **Who acts:** otter, princess · **What happens:** say, be, leap, bring, come · **To what, where:** loch, trout, midst, otter, shore, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (otter, princess), 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:pg7885:21:168 # text = No sooner said than the otter was at his side, and out on the loch she leaped, and brings the trout from the midst of the loch; but no sooner was the otter on shore with the trout than the egg came from his mouth. 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 otter otter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 out out ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 loch loch NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 leaped leap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 trout trout NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 loch loch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 no no ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 otter otter NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 trout trout NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 than than ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | the otter | | | | | than otter's side | tree rules | | 3 | **leap** | past | princess | | | the loch | | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on loch=Trajectory | | 4 | **bring** | present | | the trout | | the midst of the loch | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent trout=Theme from midst=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **is a** | past | | the otter | | shore with the trout than the egg | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | past | the otter | | | otter's mouth | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial\_Location | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/167/) - next →: [sentence 169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/169/) - ↑ back to [The Sea-maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/)