Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 21

She came down at the door, went in, and found the henwife had dinner ready.

Who acts: mare, henwife · What happens: come down, go in, find, have · To what, where: door, dinner · 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 (mare, henwife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 henwife	det
14	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	ccomp
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dinner	amod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	past	mare		the door	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location
2	go in	past	mare not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	the henwife	dinner			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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