Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 59

When Trembling was dressed, the henwife put the honey-bird on her right shoulder and the honey-finger on her left, and, placing the hat on her head, clipped a few hairs from one lock and a few from another with her scissors, and that moment the most beautiful golden hair was flowing down over the girl's shoulders.

Who acts: henwife, moment · What happens: tremble, dress, put, place, clip, flow down · To what, where: honey bird, right shoulder, hat, head, few hairs, one lock

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 (henwife, moment), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	2 Trembling	advmod
2	Trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 put	advcl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	aux:pass
4	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Trembling	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Trembling	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 henwife	det
7	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
10	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bird	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 honey	punct
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 shoulder	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shoulder	nmod:poss
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shoulder	amod
16	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 finger	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 finger	det
19	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 finger	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 honey	punct
21	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shoulder	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 left	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 left	nmod:poss
24	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 placing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 placing	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 placing	punct
28	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 put	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hat	det
30	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 placing	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 placing	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 clipped	punct
35	clipped	clip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	parataxis
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hairs	det
37	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hairs	amod
38	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 clipped	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 lock	case
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 lock	nummod
41	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 clipped	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 few	cc
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 few	det
44	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 clipped	conj
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 another	case
46	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	44 few	obl
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 scissors	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 scissors	nmod:poss
49	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 few	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 flowing	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 flowing	cc
52	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 moment	det
53	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 flowing	nsubj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 hair	det
55	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	56 beautiful	advmod
56	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 hair	amod
57	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 hair	amod
58	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 flowing	nsubj
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 flowing	aux
60	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 put	advcl
61	down	down	ADV	_	60 flowing	advmod
62	over	over	ADP	_	66 shoulders	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 girl	det
64	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 shoulders	nmod:poss
65	's	's	PART	_	64 girl	case
66	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 flowing	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tremble	gerund	the henwife not said here				tree rules
2	dress	past · passive	the henwife not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
3	put	past	the henwife	the honey bird	henwife's right shoulder and the honey finger	on henwife's left	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme on shoulder=Destination
4	place	gerund	the henwife not said here	the hat	henwife's head		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme on head=Destination
5	clip	past		a few hairs	one lock		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Patient from lock=Source
6	flow down	past · progressive	that moment		the girl's shoulders	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=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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