Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 1
There was once upon a time two farmers, and their names were Hudden and Dudden.
Who acts: names, farmers · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Hudden
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names, farmers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 farmers | nummod |
| 8 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hudden | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Hudden | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 names | nmod:poss |
| 12 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Hudden | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Hudden | cop |
| 14 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Dudden | cc |
| 16 | Dudden | Dudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hudden | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | farmers's names | Hudden and Dudden | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | farmers = farmer | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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