Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 121
Ah, Donald, my boy, it was an ill day when you borrowed my scales."
Who acts: trick, Donald · What happens: be, borrow · To what, where: ill day, scales
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 (trick, 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 15 borrowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 borrowed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 boy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Donald | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 day | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 day | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 day | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 11 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Donald | appos |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 borrowed | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 borrowed | nsubj |
| 15 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 scales | nmod:poss |
| 17 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 borrowed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 borrowed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 borrowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | trick | a ill day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | borrow | past | Donald | my scales | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=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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