Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 45
"What news have you to-day?" asked the henwife of the sisters when they came from the church.
Who acts: news, henwife, robes · What happens: have, ask, come · To what, where: church · 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 (news, henwife, robes), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 have | obj |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 henwife | det |
| 13 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sisters | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sisters | det |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 henwife | nmod |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 church | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 church | det |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | news | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the henwife of the sisters | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past | robes = robe | the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from church=Initial_Location |
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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