Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 1

A rich woman sat up late one night carding and preparing wool, while all the family and servants were asleep.

Who acts: rich woman, one night, family · What happens: sit up, card, prepare, be · To what, where: wool

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich woman, one night, family), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 sat	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 night	nummod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked
9	carding	card	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 night	acl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 preparing	cc
11	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 carding	conj
12	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 preparing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asleep	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 asleep	mark
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 family	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 family	det
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asleep	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 servants	cc
19	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 family	conj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asleep	cop
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	a rich woman		night	late property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	card	gerund	one night not said here				tree rules
3	prepare	gerund	one night not said here	wool			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Patient
4	is	past	all family and servants			asleep property	tree rules

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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