Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 29
Next Sunday the two sisters went to church again, and left the youngest at home to cook the dinner.
Who acts: two sisters · What happens: go, leave, cook · To what, where: church, youngest, home, dinner
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 (two sisters), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Sunday | amod |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sisters | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sisters | nummod |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 church | case |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youngest | det |
| 14 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 left | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 cook | mark |
| 18 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 left | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dinner | det |
| 20 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cook | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the two sisters | church | again; sunday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | leave | past | the two sisters not said here | the youngest | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent young=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 3 | cook | to-infinitive | the two sisters not said here | the dinner | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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