Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 158

That minute Trembling was able to speak, and went home with her husband, who sent word to her father what the eldest sister had done.

Who acts: minute Trembling, husband, eldest sister · What happens: be, speak, go, send, do · To what, where: word, father · 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 (minute Trembling, husband, eldest sister), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Trembling	det
2	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Trembling	compound
3	Trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 able	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 speak	mark
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 able	conj
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 husband	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sent	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sent	nsubj
17	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 husband	acl:relcl
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sent	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 father	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sent	obl
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 done	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sister	det
24	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 sister	amod
25	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 done	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 father	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	that minute Trembling			able property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	that minute Trembling not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	that minute Trembling not said here			with whale's husband; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with husband=Beneficiary
4	send	past	whale's husband	word	whale's father		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to father=Destination
5	do	past · perfect	the eldest sister	whale's father			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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