Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 24

Her husband tapped her on the shoulder, and asked her, "Why do you weep?"

Who acts: husband, Myddvai · What happens: tap, ask, weep · To what, where: Myddvai · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, Myddvai), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tapped	nsubj
3	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tapped	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 shoulder	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shoulder	det
7	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tapped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tapped	parataxis
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 weep	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 weep	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 weep	advmod
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 weep	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 weep	nsubj
17	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 weep	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 weep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tap	past	Myddvai's husband	Myddvai		on the shoulder	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on shoulder=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past			Myddvai		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	weep in a quote	present · do-support	Myddvai				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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