Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 38
When Trembling was dressed, the henwife put the honey-bird on her right shoulder and the honey-finger on her left.
Who acts: Trembling, henwife · What happens: tremble, dress, put · To what, where: honey bird, right shoulder
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 (Trembling, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 Trembling | advmod |
| 2 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dressed | csubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 henwife | det |
| 7 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dressed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 10 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bird | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 honey | punct |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shoulder | amod |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 finger | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 finger | det |
| 19 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finger | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 honey | punct |
| 21 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shoulder | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 left | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 left | nmod:poss |
| 24 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dressed | 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 | dress | past · passive | Trembling | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | put | past | the henwife | the honey bird | henwife's right shoulder and the honey finger | on henwife's left | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
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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