Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 3
One day she was called away to the house of a neighbour at some distance.
What happens: call away · To what, where: One day, house
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 called | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 neighbour | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 neighbour | det |
| 12 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call away speech: assert | past · passive | One day | the house of a neighbour at some distance | away property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to house=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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