Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 53
After they had gone and were out of sight, the henwife came to the kitchen and said: "Well, my dear, are you for church to-day?"
Who acts: rest, henwife · What happens: go, be, come, say · To what, where: sight, kitchen, you · 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 (rest, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sight | cc |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sight | cop |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 henwife | det |
| 12 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 kitchen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kitchen | det |
| 16 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 dear | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 dear | punct |
| 21 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 24 dear | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Well | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 dear | nmod:poss |
| 24 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 you | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 you | cop |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 dear | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 church | case |
| 29 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 day | case |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 to | punct |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | rest | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | rest not said here | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the henwife | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kitchen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | the henwife not said here | day | for church | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | the henwife not said here | you | 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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