Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 41
That Sunday, the people were more astonished than ever, and gazed at her more than the first time; and all they were thinking of was to know who she was.
Who acts: Sunday, all, thinking, henwife · What happens: be, gaze, think, know · 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 (Sunday, all, thinking, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Sunday | det |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonished | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 astonished | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 astonished | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 astonished | advmod |
| 8 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 ever | case |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 astonished | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gazed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gazed | cc |
| 13 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 astonished | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 more | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 more | nmod:poss |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 gazed | obl |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 more | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 know | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thinking | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 thinking | nsubj |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thinking | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 thinking | aux |
| 26 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 know | csubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 thinking | obl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 know | aux |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 know | mark |
| 30 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 astonished | parataxis |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 know | ccomp |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 who | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 who | cop |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that Sunday | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gaze | past | that Sunday not said here | at henwife's more | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at more=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past · progressive | all | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | past | thinking | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | henwife | tree rules |
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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