Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 106
All who saw her the first time said: "This is the lady we saw at church."
Who acts: first time, lady · What happens: see, say, be · To what, where: sister, lady, church · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (first time, lady), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 11 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 lady | det |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lady | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the first time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this lady | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | this lady | church | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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