Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 77
The strange lady came again, in grander array than before.
Who acts: strange lady · What happens: come · To what, where: grander array
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 (strange lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 array | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 array | case |
| 8 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 array | amod |
| 9 | array | array | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 before | case |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 array | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the strange lady | grander array | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in array=Location |
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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