Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 127
The eldest sister came home alone, and the husband asked, "Where is your sister?"
Who acts: eldest sister, husband · What happens: come, ask, be · To what, where: sister · 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 (eldest sister, husband), 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 sister | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 husband | det |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sister | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Where | punct |
| 14 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 sister | advmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sister | cop |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sister | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 sister | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the eldest sister | alone, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | your sister | tree rules |
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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