Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 63
The fame of the beautiful strange lady had gone out through the world, and all the princes and great men that were in it came to church that Sunday, each one hoping that it was himself would have her home with him after Mass.
Who acts: fame, great men, one · What happens: go out, be, hope, have · To what, where: princes, world, home · 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 (fame, great men, one), 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 fame | det |
| 2 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fame | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 gone | compound:prt |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 princes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 princes | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 princes | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princes | det |
| 18 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gone | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 men | cc |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 princes | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 came | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | cop |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 26 came | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 men | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 church | case |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 Sunday | mark |
| 30 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 church | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 one | punct |
| 32 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 one | det |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Sunday | appos |
| 34 | hoping | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 one | acl |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 have | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 have | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 have | aux |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 have | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 have | aux |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hoping | ccomp |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 home | nmod:poss |
| 42 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 have | obj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 have | obl |
| 45 | after | after | ADP | _ | 46 Mass | case |
| 46 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 have | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past · perfect | the fame of the beautiful strange lady | all princes and great men | the world | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | great men | to church; come property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | each one not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | would · past | fame | bird's home | after Mass | with Trembling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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