Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 36
The henwife put on the cloak of darkness, and asked for the robes and the mare.
Who acts: henwife · What happens: put, ask · To what, where: henwife, cloak
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 henwife | det |
| 2 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 henwife | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 cloak | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloak | det |
| 6 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 darkness | case |
| 8 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cloak | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 robes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 robes | det |
| 14 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mare | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mare | det |
| 17 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 robes | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the henwife not said here | the cloak of darkness | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the henwife | for the robes and the mare | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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