Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 5
The mistress, supposing that one of her neighbours had called and required assistance, opened the door, and a woman entered, having in her hand a pair of wool-carders, and bearing a horn on her forehead, as if growing there.
Who acts: mistress, woman · What happens: suppose, call, require, open, enter, have · To what, where: one, assistance, door, pair, hand, horn · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mistress, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mistress | det |
| 2 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 supposing | punct |
| 4 | supposing | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 mistress | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 called | mark |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 neighbours | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 9 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 supposing | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 required | cc |
| 13 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 called | conj |
| 14 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 required | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mistress | punct |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 entered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 entered | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entered | nsubj |
| 23 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 opened | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 having | punct |
| 25 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 entered | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 having | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 pair | det |
| 30 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 having | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 carders | case |
| 32 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 carders | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 wool | punct |
| 34 | carders | carder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 pair | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bearing | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bearing | cc |
| 37 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 having | parataxis |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 horn | det |
| 39 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bearing | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 forehead | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 42 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bearing | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 growing | punct |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 growing | mark |
| 45 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 growing | mark |
| 46 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 bearing | conj |
| 47 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 growing | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | gerund | the mistress not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call | past · perfect · passive | one of mistress's neighbours | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | require | participle | assistance | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme assistance=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | open | past | the mistress | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 5 | enter | past | a woman | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have | gerund | a woman not said here | a pair of wool carders | woman's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient | |||
| 7 | bear | gerund | a horn | woman's forehead | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 8 | grow a condition, not said to happen | gerund | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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