Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 51
When the third Sunday came, Fair and Brown went to church dressed in black satin.
Who acts: third Sunday, Fair · What happens: come, go, dress · To what, where: church, black satin
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 (third Sunday, Fair), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sunday | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Sunday | amod |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 7 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 went | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Brown | cc |
| 9 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Fair | conj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 church | case |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 church | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 satin | case |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 satin | amod |
| 16 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dressed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the third Sunday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Fair | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle | church not said here | black satin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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