Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 58
The henwife put on the cloak of darkness, wished for all these things, and had them.
What happens: put, wish, have · To what, where: henwife, cloak, things
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: 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 | 2 henwife | det |
| 2 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 henwife | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 cloak | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloak | det |
| 6 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 darkness | case |
| 8 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cloak | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wished | punct |
| 10 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 things | det:predet |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 things | det |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wished | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wished | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the henwife not said here | the cloak of darkness | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | ||||
| 2 | wish | participle · passive | the henwife | for all things | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | things = thing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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