Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 7
One Sunday morning, after the other two had gone to church, the old henwife came into the kitchen to Trembling, and said: "It's at church you ought to be this day, instead of working here at home."
Who acts: other two, kitchen, church · What happens: go, come, say, be, work · To what, where: One Sunday morning, Trembling, kitchen, church, day · 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 (other two, kitchen, church), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 morning | nummod |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | compound |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gone | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 gone | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 two | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 two | amod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gone | aux |
| 10 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 morning | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 church | case |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gone | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 henwife | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 henwife | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 henwife | amod |
| 16 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 church | conj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 kitchen | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kitchen | det |
| 20 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Trembling | case |
| 22 | Trembling | Trembling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | parataxis |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 church | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 church | punct |
| 28 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 church | nsubj |
| 29 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 church | cop |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 church | case |
| 31 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | ccomp |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 ought | nsubj |
| 33 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 church | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 day | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 day | cop |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 day | det |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ought | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 working | punct |
| 39 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 41 working | mark |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 instead | fixed |
| 41 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 church | acl |
| 42 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 working | advmod |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 home | case |
| 44 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 working | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the other two | One Sunday morning not said here | to church and the old henwife | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morning=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | Trembling | the kitchen | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location to trembling=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | kitchen | church | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | kitchen not said here | this day | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | work in a quote | gerund | church not said here | here | at home | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at home=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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