Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 93

The day they were to come, the sisters put Trembling in a closet, and locked the door on her.

Who acts: princes, sisters · What happens: come, put, tremble, lock · To what, where: closet, door

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, sisters), 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	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 day	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sisters	det
9	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 put	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 closet	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 closet	det
14	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Trembling	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 locked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 locked	cc
17	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 locked	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 locked	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	princes = prince					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past	the sisters			day		tree rules
3	tremble	gerund	the sisters not said here		a closet			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in closet=Location
4	lock	past	the sisters not said here	the door			on sister	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient on she=Co-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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