Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 124
The young woman sent for her eldest sister, Fair, to be with her and care for her.
Who acts: young woman · What happens: send, be, care
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 (young woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sister | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 sister | amod |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fair | punct |
| 10 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sister | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 her | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 her | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 her | cop |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 care | cc |
| 17 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 care | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the young woman | for woman's eldest sister | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | with sister | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | care | infinitive | the young woman not said here | for woman | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for she=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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