Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 69
She came home as fast as the mare could carry her, and was thinking all the time that the henwife would kill her for losing the shoe.
Who acts: lady, mare, henwife · What happens: come, carry, think, kill, lose · To what, where: lady, shoe · 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 (lady, mare, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 came | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mare | det |
| 8 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | aux |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fast | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinking | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thinking | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thinking | aux |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 time | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thinking | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 kill | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 henwife | det |
| 21 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kill | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 kill | aux |
| 23 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thinking | ccomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kill | obj |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 losing | mark |
| 26 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 kill | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shoe | det |
| 28 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 losing | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | lady | fast, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | could | the mare | lady | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past · progressive | lady not said here | time | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | would | the henwife | lady | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | gerund | the henwife not said here | the shoe | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality |
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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