Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 105
Then Trembling rode along the highway to the front of the house.
What happens: tremble · To what, where: highway
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Trembling | advmod |
| 2 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | rode | rode | ADV | _ | 2 Trembling | advmod |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 highway | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 highway | det |
| 6 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Trembling | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 front | det |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Trembling | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 front | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Trembling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | the highway | then | to the front of the house; rode property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along highway=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.
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