Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 109

"Take my cattle in exchange," said the farmer; and you may guess it wasn't long before Donald was at their tails driving them homewards.

Who acts: farmer, you, deal, Donald, tails · What happens: take, say, guess, not be, be, drive · To what, where: cattle, exchange, farmers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (farmer, you, deal, Donald), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cattle	nmod:poss
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Take	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 exchange	case
6	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farmer	det
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 guess	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 guess	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 guess	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 guess	aux
16	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 long	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 long	cop
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 guess	advmod
21	before	before	ADP	_	26 tails	case
22	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 tails	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tails	cop
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 tails	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tails	nmod:poss
26	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 guess	obl
27	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 tails	acl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 driving	obj
29	homewards	homeward	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 driving	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	infinitive		my cattle	exchange			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cattle=Value in exchange=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the farmer					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	guess	may	you					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	deal				long property	tree rules
5	is	past	Donald			before farmers's tails		tree rules
6	drive	gerund	farmers's tails not said here	farmers = farmer				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme homeward=Destination

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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