Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 1

King Hugh Curucha lived in Tir Conal, and he had three daughters, whose names were Fair, Brown, and Trembling.

Who acts: King Hugh, Hugh, names · What happens: live, have, be, tremble · To what, where: Tir, three daughters

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Hugh, Hugh, names), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hugh	compound
2	Hugh	Hugh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
3	Curucha	Curucha	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hugh	flat
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Tir	case
6	Tir	Tir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
7	Conal	Conal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Tir	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	conj
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 daughters	nummod
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Fair	punct
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 names	nmod:poss
16	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Fair	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Fair	cop
18	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 daughters	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Brown	punct
20	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Fair	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Trembling	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Trembling	cc
23	Trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 had	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	King Hugh		Tir		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tir=Location
2	have	past	Hugh	three daughters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	is	past	names			fair property	tree rules
4	be		names not said here				tree rules
5	tremble	gerund	Hugh not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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