Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 109
A third time she asked for a short absence, and soon came back on the third mare and in the third dress.
Who acts: lady · What happens: ask, come back
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 absence | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 absence | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 absence | amod |
| 9 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 came | advmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 mare | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mare | det |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 mare | amod |
| 18 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dress | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 dress | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dress | det |
| 22 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 dress | amod |
| 23 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mare | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | lady | time | for a short absence | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come back | past | lady not said here | on the third mare and the third dress; soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mare=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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