Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 3
Trembling was kept at home to do the cooking and work.
What happens: tremble, keep, do · To what, where: home, cooking
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: 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 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 kept | mark |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | aux:pass |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kept | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cooking | det |
| 9 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 work | cc |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cooking | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | keep | past · passive | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: at home=Location | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the cooking and work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Eventuality |
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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