Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 2
Fair and Brown had new dresses, and went to church every Sunday.
Who acts: Fair Brown · What happens: have, go · To what, where: new dresses, church
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 (Fair Brown), 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 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Brown | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Brown | cc |
| 3 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dresses | amod |
| 6 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 church | case |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Sunday | det |
| 13 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Fair Brown | new dresses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Fair Brown not said here | church | sunday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location |
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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