Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 30

After they had gone, the henwife came in and asked: "Will you go to church to-day?"

Who acts: robes, henwife, you · What happens: go, come in, ask · To what, where: church · 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 (robes, henwife, you), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 henwife	det
7	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
14	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 church	case
18	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 day	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 to	punct
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	robes = robe			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in	past	the henwife			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	the henwife not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in a quote	future	you	church	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location

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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