Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 118
"Well, here you are," said Dudden, for they were now come to the Brown Lake, and, unslinging the sack, they pitched it plump into the lake.
Who acts: you, Dudden, farmers · What happens: be, say, come, unsling, pitch · To what, where: farmers, sack, lake · 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 (you, Dudden, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 here | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | parataxis |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Dudden | Dudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux:pass |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 come | advmod |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Lake | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lake | det |
| 19 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lake | compound |
| 20 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 unslinging | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 unslinging | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 unslinging | punct |
| 24 | unslinging | unsling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sack | det |
| 26 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 unslinging | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pitched | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pitched | nsubj |
| 29 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pitched | obj |
| 31 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pitched | xcomp |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 lake | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lake | det |
| 34 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pitched | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dudden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past · passive | farmers = farmer | now | to the Brown Lake | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | unsling | gerund | Dudden not said here | the sack | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pitch | past | farmers = farmer | sack | the lake | plump property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into lake=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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