Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 44
Trembling took off her satin robe, and had on her old clothes before her sisters got home.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: tremble, take off, have, get · To what, where: satin robe, old clothes
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 (sisters), 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 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 robe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | satin | satin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 robe | amod |
| 6 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 clothes | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clothes | amod |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 had | obl |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 got | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | advcl |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | 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 | take off | past | henwife's satin robe | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | henwife's old clothes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | past | henwife's sisters | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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