Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 70
Seeing her so vexed and so changed in the face, the old woman asked: "What's the trouble that's on you now?" "
Who acts: old woman · What happens: see, vex, change, ask, be · To what, where: lady, face, trouble · 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 (old woman), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | advcl |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 vexed | advmod |
| 4 | vexed | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Seeing | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 changed | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 changed | advmod |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 vexed | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 trouble | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 trouble | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 trouble | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 trouble | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trouble | det |
| 21 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 's | nsubj |
| 23 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 trouble | cop |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 's | obl |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 's | advmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 's | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 trouble | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the old woman not said here | lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | vex | past | the old woman not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | change | participle | the old woman not said here | the face | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | the trouble | tree rules |
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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