Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 11

And when Donald came to see if Daisy was all snug for the night, the poor beast had only time to lick his hand once before she died.

Who acts: Donald, Daisy, poor beast · What happens: come, see, be, have, lick, die · To what, where: hand

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 (Donald, Daisy, poor beast), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 snug	mark
8	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 snug	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 snug	cop
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 snug	det
11	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 see	ccomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snug	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beast	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beast	amod
18	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 time	advmod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 lick	mark
23	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lick	obj
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 lick	advmod
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 died	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 died	nsubj
29	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lick	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Donald				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	Donald not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Daisy		night	snug property	tree rules
4	have	past	the poor beast		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	lick	to-infinitive	the poor beast not said here	Donald's hand		once property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source
6	die	past	Daisy				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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