Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 13
Then the henwife put on the cloak of darkness, clipped a piece from the old clothes the young woman had on, and asked for the whitest robes in the world and the most beautiful that could be found, and a pair of green shoes.
Who acts: henwife, young woman · What happens: put, clip, have on, ask, find · To what, where: henwife, cloak, piece, old clothes, world
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 (henwife, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 clipped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 henwife | det |
| 3 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clipped | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 henwife | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 cloak | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cloak | det |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 darkness | case |
| 9 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloak | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 henwife | punct |
| 11 | clipped | clip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clipped | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 clothes | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clothes | amod |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 clipped | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 had | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 asked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asked | cc |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 clipped | parataxis |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 robes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 robes | det |
| 28 | whitest | white | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 robes | amod |
| 29 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 asked | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 beautiful | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 beautiful | det |
| 35 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 36 beautiful | advmod |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 asked | conj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 found | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 found | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 found | aux:pass |
| 40 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 beautiful | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 pair | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 pair | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 pair | det |
| 44 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clipped | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 shoes | case |
| 46 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 shoes | amod |
| 47 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 pair | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 clipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the henwife not said here | the cloak of darkness | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | ||||
| 2 | clip | past | the henwife | a piece | the old clothes | then | a pair of green shoes obl | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Patient from clothes=Source | |
| 3 | have on | past | the young woman | the old clothes not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the world | for the whitest robes | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | find | could · passive | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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