Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 162
In time Trembling had a second child, a daughter.
Who acts: Trembling · What happens: have · To what, where: second child
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:1642): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 3 | Trembling | Trembling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughter | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 child | appos |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Trembling | a second child | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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