--- title: One Sunday morning, after the other two had gone to church, the old… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: One Sunday morning, after the other two had gone to church, the old henwife came into the kitchen to Trembling, and said: "It's at church you ought to be this day, instead of working here at home." Who acts: other two, kitchen, church. 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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 (other two, kitchen, church), 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:pg7885:23:7 # text = One Sunday morning, after the other two had gone to church, the old henwife came into the kitchen to Trembling, and said: "It's at church you ought to be this day, instead of working here at home." 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 after after SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 acl:relcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 henwife henwife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Trembling Trembling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 ccomp _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 36 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 41 mark _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 39 fixed _ _ 41 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 42 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the other two | One Sunday morning *not said here* | | | | to church and the old henwife | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morning=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | | | Trembling | the kitchen | morning | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial\_Location to trembling=Destination | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | kitchen | | | church | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | kitchen *not said here* | this day | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **work** *in a quote* | gerund | church *not said here* | | | here | | at home | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at home=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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/8/) - ↑ back to [Fair, Brown, and Trembling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/)