Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 94
When the company came to the house, the prince of Emania gave the shoe to the sisters.
Who acts: company, prince · What happens: come, give · To what, where: house, shoe, sisters
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 (company, prince), 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 company | det |
| 3 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Emania | case |
| 12 | Emania | Emania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 prince | nmod |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shoe | det |
| 15 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sisters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sisters | det |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the company | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the prince of Emania | the shoe | the sisters | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme to sister=Recipient |
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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