Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 7
Suddenly she paused, and said aloud: "Where are the women? they delay too long."
Who acts: mistress, family · What happens: pause, say, be, delay · To what, where: women · 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, 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 paused | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 7 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 women | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Where | punct |
| 10 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 women | advmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 women | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 women | det |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paused | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 delay | nsubj |
| 16 | delay | delay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | parataxis |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 delay | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | mistress | suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | mistress not said here | aloud property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the women | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | delay in a quote | present | family | long property | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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