Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 105
Out crawled Donald; in crept the farmer.
What happens: crawl, creep · To what, where: Donald, farmer
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: 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 2 crawled | advmod |
| 2 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 crawled | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 crept | punct |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 crept | mark |
| 6 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crawled | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmer | det |
| 8 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crept | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | past | Donald | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location donald=Theme | ||||
| 2 | creep | past | the farmer | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location farmer=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.
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