Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 49
The two sisters gave neither rest nor peace till they got dresses as nearly like the strange lady's robes as they could find.
Who acts: two sisters, rest · What happens: give, get, find · To what, where: rest, dresses
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 (two sisters, rest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sisters | nummod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 rest | det |
| 6 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 peace | cc |
| 8 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rest | conj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 got | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | advcl |
| 12 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 got | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 nearly | case |
| 14 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 got | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 robes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lady | det |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lady | amod |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 robes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 lady | case |
| 20 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 got | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | aux |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 got | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the two sisters | neither rest nor peace | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | rest | dresses | like the strange lady's robes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus as nearly=Attribute | |||
| 3 | find | could | rest | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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