Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 11

And so the knocks went on, and the call was heard, and the witches entered, until at last twelve women sat round the fire--the first with one horn, the last with twelve horns.

Who acts: knocks, witches, twelve women · What happens: go on, hear, enter, sit · To what, where: call

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 (knocks, witches, twelve women), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knocks	det
4	knocks	knock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 call	det
10	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux:pass
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 entered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 entered	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 witches	det
16	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 entered	nsubj
17	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 sat	mark
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 twelve	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 twelve	amod
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 women	nummod
23	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 entered	advcl
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 fire	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fire	det
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 first	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 first	det
30	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 fire	amod
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 horn	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 horn	nummod
33	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 first	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 last	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 last	det
36	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 horn	amod
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 horns	case
38	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 horns	nummod
39	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 last	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the knocks			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past · passive		the call		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	enter	past	the witches			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	past	twelve women		round the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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