--- title: Then the henwife put on the cloak of darkness, clipped a piece from… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the henwife put on the cloak of darkness, clipped a piece from the old clothes the young woman had on, and asked for the whitest robes in the world and the most beautiful that could be found, and a pair of green shoes. Who acts: henwife, young woman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (henwife, young 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:23:13 # text = Then the henwife put on the cloak of darkness, clipped a piece from the old clothes the young woman had on, and asked for the whitest robes in the world and the most beautiful that could be found, and a pair of green shoes. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 henwife henwife NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 clipped clip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 on on ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 whitest white ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 36 advmod _ _ 36 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | participle | | the henwife *not said here* | | the cloak of darkness | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | | 2 | **clip** | past | the henwife | a piece | | the old clothes | then | a pair of green shoes *obl* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Patient from clothes=Source | | 3 | **have on** | past | the young woman | the old clothes *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | | | | the world | | for the whitest robes | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find** | could · passive | | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/14/) - ↑ back to [Fair, Brown, and Trembling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/)