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title: When Trembling was dressed and ready, the henwife said: "I have a ho… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Trembling was dressed and ready, the henwife said: "I have a honey-bird here to sit on your right shoulder, and a honey-finger to put on your left. Who acts: henwife, honey bird. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 15

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When Trembling was dressed and ready, the henwife said: "I have a honey-bird here to sit on your right shoulder, and a honey-finger to put on your left.

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**Who acts:** henwife, honey bird · **What happens:** tremble, dress, say, have, sit, put · **To what, where:** honey bird, honey finger, right shoulder, left · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (henwife, honey bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7885:23:15
# text = When Trembling was dressed and ready, the henwife said: "I have a honey-bird here to sit on your right shoulder, and a honey-finger to put on your left.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	henwife	henwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | gerund | the henwife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | past · passive | the henwife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the henwife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the henwife *= henwife* | a honey bird |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a honey bird *not said here* | a honey finger |  | your right shoulder |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location |
| 6 | **put** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a honey bird *not said here* | a honey finger *not said here* |  | your left |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on left=Destination |

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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.

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**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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