Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 6

She sat down by the fire in silence, and began to card the wool with violent haste.

Who acts: mistress · What happens: sit down, begin · To what, where: silence, card

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), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 silence	case
8	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 card	mark
13	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wool	det
15	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 haste	case
17	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 haste	amod
18	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	mistress			silence		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	begin	past	mistress not said here	card				with violent haste	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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