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title: No sooner said I the word than the two cats and ten went down to att… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner said I the word than the two cats and ten went down to attack the calf, and in very deed, he did not last them long. ' Who acts: I, ten, calf. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 71

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No sooner said I the word than the two cats and ten went down to attack the calf, and in very deed, he did not last them long. '

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**Who acts:** I, ten, calf · **What happens:** say, go down, attack, not last · **To what, where:** word, calf, words, deed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ten, calf), 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:pg7885:9:71
# text = No sooner said I the word than the two cats and ten went down to attack the calf, and in very deed, he did not last them long. '
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	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I | the word |  |  |  | than the two cats; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go down** | past | ten |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **attack** | to-infinitive | ten *not said here* | the calf |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **last** | past · do-support | calf | words *= word* |  | deed |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value |

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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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