Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 75
When the sisters came home, the henwife asked: "Have you any news from the church?"
Who acts: sisters, henwife, you · What happens: come, ask, have · To what, where: news, church · 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 (sisters, henwife, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 henwife | det |
| 8 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Have | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Have | punct |
| 12 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 Have | nsubj |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 news | det |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Have | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 church | det |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Have | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the sisters | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the henwife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | any news | the church | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient |
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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