Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 20
From the minute she left the church till she got home, she overtook the wind before her, and outstripped the wind behind.
Who acts: mare · What happens: leave, get, overtake, outstrip · To what, where: church, wind
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 (mare), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 minute | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 minute | det |
| 3 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 got | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | advcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 overtook | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 overtook | nsubj |
| 14 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 overtook | obj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 overtook | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 outstripped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 outstripped | cc |
| 21 | outstripped | outstrip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 outstripped | obj |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 21 outstripped | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | mare | the church | minute | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | past | mare | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | overtake | past | mare | the wind | before use | tree rules | |||
| 4 | outstrip | past | mare not said here | the wind | behind property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wind=Theme |
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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