Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 12
Well, Donald was a shrewd fellow, and downhearted though he was, began to think if he could get any good out of Daisy's death.
Who acts: Donald, Daisy · What happens: be, think, get, die · To what, where: shrewd fellow
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), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 fellow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fellow | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fellow | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fellow | det |
| 6 | shrewd | shrewd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | amod |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 downhearted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 downhearted | cc |
| 10 | downhearted | downhearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | conj |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 began | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 began | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 downhearted | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 get | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 think | ccomp |
| 22 | any | any | ADV | _ | 23 good | advmod |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 get | xcomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 death | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 death | case |
| 26 | Daisy | Daisy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 death | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Daisy | case |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 good | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Donald | a shrewd fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Donald not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Donald | begin property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Donald not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get a condition, not said to happen | could | Donald | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | die | Daisy | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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