Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 17
So when the day of the reap came the woman did all that the Wise Man ordered, and put the eggshell on the fire and took it off and carried it to the door, and there she stood and listened.
Who acts: day, woman, Wise Man · What happens: come, do, order, put, take off, carry · To what, where: eggshell, fire, door
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, woman, Wise Man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 reap | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reap | det |
| 7 | reap | reap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 ordered | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 ordered | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Man | det |
| 15 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Man | amod |
| 16 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ordered | nsubj |
| 17 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eggshell | det |
| 22 | eggshell | eggshell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 fire | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fire | det |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 took | cc |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | obj |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 took | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 carried | cc |
| 31 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 took | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 carried | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 door | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 door | det |
| 35 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carried | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 stood | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 stood | cc |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 stood | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 stood | nsubj |
| 40 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 listened | cc |
| 42 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 stood | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the day of the reap | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the woman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | order | past | the Wise Man | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | the day of the reap not said here | the eggshell | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eggshell=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 5 | take off | past | the day of the reap not said here | eggshell | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | carry | past | the day of the reap not said here | eggshell | the door | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to door=Destination | |||
| 7 | stand | past | woman | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | listen | past | woman not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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