Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 64
The son of the king of Emania forgot all about the eldest sister, and remained outside the church, so as to catch the strange lady before she could hurry away.
Who acts: son, sister · What happens: forget, remain, catch, hurry away · To what, where: church, strange lady
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 (son, sister), 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 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 son | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Emania | case |
| 7 | Emania | Emania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nmod |
| 8 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 sister | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 sister | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sister | det |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 sister | amod |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgot | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remained | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 remained | cc |
| 16 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 forgot | conj |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 19 church | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 church | det |
| 19 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remained | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 catch | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 catch | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 catch | mark |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 catch | mark |
| 24 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 forgot | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lady | det |
| 26 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lady | amod |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 catch | obj |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 hurry | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hurry | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 hurry | aux |
| 31 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 catch | advcl |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 hurry | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | the son of the king of Emania | about the eldest sister | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | participle | the son of the king of Emania not said here | the church | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside church=Location | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | the son of the king of Emania not said here | the strange lady | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hurry away | could | sister | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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