Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 74
Then Trembling gave up all the things she had to the henwife, put on her old clothes, and went to work in the kitchen.
Who acts: henwife · What happens: tremble, give up, have, put, go, work · To what, where: things, old clothes
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 gave | compound:prt |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 things | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 henwife | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 henwife | det |
| 12 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 clothes | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 clothes | amod |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 work | mark |
| 23 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 went | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 kitchen | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 kitchen | det |
| 26 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 work | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | give up | past | all things | then | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Source | ||||
| 3 | have | past | henwife | all things not said here | to the henwife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | henwife's old clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | |||||
| 5 | go | past | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | work | to-infinitive | in the kitchen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in kitchen=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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