Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 22

She put off the white robes, and had on her old dress in a twinkling.

Who acts: mare · What happens: put off, have · To what, where: white robes, old dress

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 put	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robes	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 robes	amod
6	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 dress	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dress	nmod:poss
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dress	amod
13	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 twinkling	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 twinkling	det
16	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put off	past	mare	the white robes					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent robe=Goal
2	have	past				mare's old dress		in a twinkling	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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