Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 40
When Trembling sat in the saddle and was going away, the henwife ordered her strictly not to go inside the door of the church, but to rush away as soon as the people rose at the end of Mass, and hurry home on the mare before any man could stop her.
Who acts: henwife, people, man · What happens: tremble, sit, go away, order, not go, rush away · To what, where: saddle, bird, door, end, henwife
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, people, man), 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 | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 saddle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 saddle | det |
| 6 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 going | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ordered | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 henwife | det |
| 13 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | nsubj |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ordered | obj |
| 16 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 14 ordered | advmod |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 go | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 ordered | parataxis |
| 20 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 church | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 church | det |
| 25 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 door | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rush | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 rush | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 rush | mark |
| 29 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | conj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 rush | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 soon | advmod |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 rush | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 rose | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 people | det |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rose | nsubj |
| 36 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 soon | advcl |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 end | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 end | det |
| 39 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rose | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Mass | case |
| 41 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 end | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 hurry | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 hurry | cc |
| 44 | hurry | hurry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | parataxis |
| 45 | home | home | ADV | _ | 44 hurry | advmod |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 mare | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 mare | det |
| 48 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hurry | obl |
| 49 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 53 stop | mark |
| 50 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 51 man | det |
| 51 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 stop | nsubj |
| 52 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 stop | aux |
| 53 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 hurry | advcl |
| 54 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 stop | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | 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 | sit | past | the saddle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in saddle=Location | |||||
| 3 | go away | past · progressive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | order | past | the henwife | bird | strictly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | not go | to-infinitive | the door of the church | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside door=Location | |||||
| 6 | rush away | to-infinitive | away, soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | rise | past | the people | at the end of Mass | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location | ||||
| 8 | hurry | infinitive | on the mare; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mare=Trajectory | |||||
| 9 | stop | could | any man | henwife | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector she=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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