Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 85
They visited every place where a woman was to be found, and left not a house in the kingdom they did not search, to know could they find the woman the shoe would fit, not caring whether she was rich or poor, of high or low degree.
Who acts: princes, shoe, woman · What happens: visit, find, not leave, not search, know, fit · To what, where: place, woman, house, kingdom · 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 (princes, shoe, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 visited | nsubj |
| 2 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 visited | obj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 found | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 found | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 visited | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 left | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kingdom | det |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 search | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 search | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 search | advmod |
| 24 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 know | mark |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 left | conj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 find | aux |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 find | nsubj |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 know | ccomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 woman | det |
| 32 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 find | obj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shoe | det |
| 34 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fit | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 fit | aux |
| 36 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 find | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 caring | punct |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 caring | advmod |
| 39 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 fit | xcomp |
| 40 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 43 rich | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 rich | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 rich | cop |
| 43 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 caring | advcl |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 poor | cc |
| 45 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 rich | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 degree | punct |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 degree | case |
| 48 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 degree | amod |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 low | cc |
| 50 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 high | conj |
| 51 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fit | parataxis |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | princes = prince | every place | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | princes = prince not said here | a woman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not leave | past | princes = prince not said here | a house | the kingdom | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in kingdom=Location | |||
| 4 | not search | past · do-support | princes = prince | the kingdom not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Location | ||||
| 5 | know | to-infinitive | princes = prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | find | could | princes = prince | the woman | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent woman=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fit | would | the shoe | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | not care | gerund | the shoe not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | is | past | woman | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | be | woman not said here | 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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