Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 92
They were that way waiting, and scolding the younger sister, till the princes were near the place.
Who acts: feet, way, princes · What happens: be, wait, scold · To what, where: way, younger sister, place
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 (feet, way, princes), 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 | 4 way | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | cop |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 way | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scolding | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 scolding | cc |
| 8 | scolding | scold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 waiting | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 10 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 sister | amod |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scolding | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 place | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 place | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princes | det |
| 15 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 place | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 place | cop |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waiting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | feet = foot | that way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | that way not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | scold | gerund | that way not said here | the younger sister | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the princes | the place | 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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