Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 125

One day, when Trembling was well, and when her husband was away hunting, the two sisters went out to walk; and when they came to the seaside, the eldest pushed the youngest sister in.

Who acts: Trembling, husband, two sisters, invitations, eldest · What happens: be, hunt, go out, walk, come, push in · To what, where: seaside, youngest 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 (Trembling, husband, two sisters, invitations), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 well	advmod
5	Trembling	Trembling	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 well	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 well	cop
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 hunting	mark
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hunting	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hunting	aux
14	away	away	ADV	_	15 hunting	advmod
15	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 went	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hunting	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sisters	det
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sisters	nummod
19	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 walk	mark
23	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 went	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 pushed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 pushed	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 came	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 pushed	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 seaside	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 seaside	det
31	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 eldest	det
34	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 pushed	nsubj
35	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 went	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sister	det
37	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 sister	amod
38	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pushed	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	35 pushed	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Trembling				well property	tree rules
2	hunt	past · progressive	woman's husband				away property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go out	past	the two sisters			day	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	walk	to-infinitive	the two sisters not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	invitations = invitation		the seaside			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seaside=Initial_Location
6	push in	past	the eldest	the youngest sister				vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=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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