Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 1

Long ago, a poor widow woman lived down near the iron forge, by Enniscorth, and she was so poor she had no clothes to put on her son; so she used to fix him in the ash-hole, near the fire, and pile the warm ashes about him; and according as he grew up, she sunk the pit deeper.

Who acts: poor widow woman, woman, Enniscorth · What happens: live down, be, have, put, use, fix · To what, where: iron forge, clothes, Enniscorth, ash hole, warm ashes, pit

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor widow woman, woman, Enniscorth), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 lived	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ago	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
6	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woman	compound
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 lived	advmod
10	near	near	ADP	_	13 forge	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forge	det
12	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forge	amod
13	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Enniscorth	punct
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 Enniscorth	case
16	Enniscorth	Enniscorth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 forge	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 poor	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 poor	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 poor	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 poor	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 poor	advmod
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lived	conj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 poor	ccomp
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 clothes	det
26	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	24 had	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 put	mark
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	advcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 son	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 used	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 used	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 used	nsubj
35	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 fix	mark
37	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 used	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fix	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 hole	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 hole	det
41	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 hole	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 ash	punct
43	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fix	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fire	punct
45	near	near	ADP	_	47 fire	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 fire	det
47	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fix	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 pile	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 pile	cc
50	pile	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	35 used	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 ashes	det
52	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ashes	amod
53	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 pile	obj
54	about	about	ADP	_	55 him	case
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 ashes	nmod
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 grew	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 grew	cc
58	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	61 grew	advcl
59	as	as	ADP	_	58 according	fixed
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 grew	nsubj
61	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
62	up	up	ADP	_	61 grew	compound:prt
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 sunk	punct
64	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 sunk	nsubj
65	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 grew	conj
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 pit	det
67	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 sunk	obj
68	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	65 sunk	xcomp
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live down	past	a poor widow woman		the iron forge	ago, down property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near forge=Location
2	is	past	woman			poor property	tree rules
3	have	past	woman	no clothes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
4	put	to-infinitive	woman not said here			on woman's son	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on son=Destination
5	use	past	woman				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	fix	to-infinitive	woman not said here	Enniscorth	the ash hole	near the fire	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	pile	present	woman not said here	the warm ashes		about Enniscorth	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme about he=Destination
8	accord	gerund	Enniscorth not said here				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
9	grow up	past	Enniscorth				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	sink	past	woman	the pit		deep property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pit=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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