Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 15

When Trembling was dressed and ready, the henwife said: "I have a honey-bird here to sit on your right shoulder, and a honey-finger to put on your left.

Who acts: henwife, honey bird · What happens: tremble, dress, say, have, sit, put · To what, where: honey bird, honey finger, right shoulder, left · 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 (henwife, honey bird), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 Trembling	advmod
2	Trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	aux:pass
4	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Trembling	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ready	cc
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dressed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Trembling	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 henwife	det
9	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bird	det
16	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bird	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 honey	punct
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 have	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sit	mark
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 shoulder	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shoulder	nmod:poss
24	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shoulder	compound
25	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 finger	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 finger	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 finger	det
29	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 finger	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 honey	punct
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 put	mark
33	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 finger	acl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 left	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 left	nmod:poss
36	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tremble	gerund	the henwife not said here			tree rules
2	dress	past · passive	the henwife not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
3	say speech: assert	past	the henwife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	the henwife = henwife	a honey bird	here	tree rules
5	sit in a quote	to-infinitive	a honey bird not said here	a honey finger	your right shoulder	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location
6	put in a quote	to-infinitive	a honey bird not said here	a honey finger not said here	your left	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on left=Destination

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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