Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 100
When Trembling came out, the shoe was given to her, and it fitted exactly.
Who acts: door · What happens: tremble, come out, give, fit · To what, where: shoe, sister
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 (door), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 Trembling | advmod |
| 2 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shoe | det |
| 7 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 given | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fitted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fitted | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fitted | nsubj |
| 15 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 16 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 15 fitted | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come out | past | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | the shoe | sister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | fit | past | door | exactly property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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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